On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 6:31 AM, Fergal Byrne <[email protected]> wrote:
> What they say, and perhaps it's worth thinking about, is that we would > gain credibility if we could demonstrate a "killer application" (what Ben > Goertzel calls the "AGI Sputnik moment") of HTM which shows it solving a > problem nobody else can even attempt to solve. For that, I believe, we'll > need the full sensorimotor stack and hierarchy, which we will have in the > next few months. > > Could I ask people to have a think about this and possibly bounce around > ideas? We could schedule a round-table session during the hackathon next > month and see if there's an application area to focus on in this regard. > The most immediate candidates I can see right now are cortical.io (aka > CEPT) for NLP and the Geospatial Encoder. > Hi Fergal, This is a really nice idea. I'm sure Jeff will be happy to participate as well. Perhaps it is a discussion we can carry on during office hours as well. --Subutai
