> - Can an AGI be made without there existing a single person knowing the > relevant parts from Neuroscience, Psychology, Machine Learning, Philosophy - > and perhaps some more relevant parts from Computer Science? I'd guess this > question is impossible to answer, since we don't have an AGI yet; but from > the perspective of how teams work - does it become necessary for at least one > person to know the relevant parts from the various fields, so as to be able > to coordinate the team's efforts? I myself don't have much (any perhaps) > experience with leading teams; and hence, I wanted to seek experienced > opinions. In essence, is the "broad yet deep" background too much to aim for?
I think having one or preferably more people w/ that sort of integrative knowledge is highly valuable for any AGI project > > - Are there any opinions about whether a Masters in Cognitive Science is > worthwhile, or would I be better off pursuing the Masters in something more > specific? MS in Cog Sci is a great idea if you want to work seriously on AGI > - In case I'm better off pursuing the Masters in something else, is it > feasible to just do it from online courses? I've a strong bias towards online > self-directed learning - and I want to learn things without being much > involved in the research itself. For instance, I am learning machine > learning, but I do not want to invest myself in ML research. I'm also not > very convinced by the way academia exists today in the age of internet, and > think it can be improved. This goes off on a tangent though. For > self-learning AGI itself, there exist a ton of resources at agi-society.org > (the links seem broken in recent days though; internet-archive helps); but > I'd be very dubious if studying that would help me pay my bills. Universities suck badly in many ways, yet they are the most reliably OK institution humanity has yet found for systematically fostering research and education. Online learning is fantastic, but does not quite substitute for the complex implicit learning that comes from being part of a social group focused on learning and advancing a particular area of knowledge (such as one gets from good old F2F grad school, as least in non-shitty cases...) -- Ben -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "opencog" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/opencog/CACYTDBdnxU%2BSBDdY-5daWiKHdQuZgr752cGRjL6N7yGPv1C4tw%40mail.gmail.com.
