Hi Ben,
I think that true machine intelligence will be computationally
demanding and will initially appear on expensive hardware
available only to wealthy institutions like the government or
corporations. Even when it is possible on commodity hardware,
expensive hardware will still support much
It is true that eventually this technology will be in the public domain and
be available to DARPA.
The important thing is to avoid DARPA getting it before everyone else does.
The ***only*** way to do this is to avoid accepting funding from them. If
this means that it takes 5 more years to
Stephen Read wrote:
As Cycorp is the best funded company among those organizations with AGI as
their primary goal, I would state that for us enrichment is not the
motive.
Steve, I accept this as an honest statement of your personal motivations.
However, I'm not sure that Cycorp's investors
On 12/01 Ben Goertzel said:
2) to avoid the military achieving *exclusive* control over one's
technology
What I am about to say may sound blasphemous, but the military may be
the group with resources to protect the technology!
By publicizing and making AGI technology generally available other
