Thanks, Ben. The technical details of our design and business plan details are indeed confidential. All I can really say publicly is that we are confident that we have pretty direct path to high-level AGI from where we are, and that we have an extremely viable business plan to make this happen. Initial commercialization next year will utilize the current 'low-grade' version of our AGI engine that will be able to perform certain tasks that are quite dumb (in human terms) but still commercially valuable. Our AGI 'brain' can potentially be utilized in many different kinds of systems/ applications.
More details will probably become available late this year. Peter PS. I also have *some* doubts about the ultimate capabilities of our AGI engine, but probably no greater than yours about NM :) -----Original Message----- From: Ben Goertzel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 2:56 PM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: Re: [agi] More Info Please Peter has some technical info on his overall (adaptive neural net) based approach to AI, on his company website, which is based on a paper he wrote in the AGI volume Cassio and I edited for Springer (written 2002, published 2006). However, he has kept his specific commercial product direction tightly under wraps. I believe Peter's ideas are interesting but I have my doubts that his approach is really AGI-capable. However, I don't feel comfortable going into great deal on my reasons, because Peter seems to value secrecy regarding his approach... I've had a mild amount of insider info regarding the approach (e.g. due to visiting his site a few years ago, etc.) and don't want to blab stuff on this list that he'd want me to keep secret... Ben On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Mike Tintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... on this: > > http://www.adaptiveai.com/news/index.htm > > " Towards Commercialization > > It's been a while. We've been busy. A good kind of busy. > > At the end of March we completed an important milestone: a demo system > consolidating our prior 10 months' work. This was followed by my > annual pilgrimage to our investors in Australia. The upshot of all > this is that we now have some additional seed funding to launch our > commercialization phase late this year. > > On the technical side we still have a lot of hard work ahead of us. > Fortunately we have a very strong and highly motivated team, so that > over the next 6 months we expect to make as much additional progress > as we have over the past 12. Our next technical milestone is around > early October by which time we'll want our 'proto AGI' to be pretty > much ready to start earning a living. > > By the end of 2008 we should be ready to actively pursue > commercialization in addition to our ongoing R&D efforts. At that time > we'll be looking for a high-powered CEO to head up our business > division which we expect to grow to many hundreds of employees over a few years. > > Early in 2009 we plan to raise capital for this commercial venture, > and if things go according to plan we'll have a team of around 50 by > the middle of the year. > > Well, exciting future plans, but now back to work. > > Peter " > > > > ------------------------------------------- > 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/?&; Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ------------------------------------------- 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=103754539-40ed26 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
