Richard, I promise you I'll take you up on this argument **in detail** sometime during Summer 2008 after I release the OpenCog conceptual documentation... which is only about 50-70 hours work from being ready, but time for such stuff is scant...
ben > > Ed, can you please specify *precisely* what, in the talks at AGI 2008, > leads you to the conclusion that "we know enough to start building > impressive intelligences"? > > Some might say that everything shown at AGI 2008 could be interpreted as > lots of people working on the problem, but that in ten years time those same > people will come back and report that they are still working on the problem, > but with no substantial difference to what they showed this year. > > The reason that some people would say this is that if you went back ten > years, you could find people achieving forms of AI that exhibited no > *substantial* difference to anything shown at AGI 2008. > > So, I am looking for your concrete reason (not gut instinct, but concrete > reason) to claim that "we know enough ...etc.". > > > > Richard Loosemore > > > > ------------------------------------------- > agi > Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ > Modify Your Subscription: > http://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > -- Ben Goertzel, PhD CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC Director of Research, SIAI [EMAIL PROTECTED] "If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms." -- Henry Miller ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=101455710-f059c4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
