Re: Re[6]: [agi] Funding AGI research

2007-11-25 Thread Benjamin Goertzel
Linas: I find it telling that no one is saying I've got the code, I just need to scale it up 1000-fold to make it impressive ... Yes, that's an accurate comment. Novamente will hopefully reach that point in a few years. For now, we will need (and use) a lotta machines for commercial product

RE: Re[6]: [agi] Funding AGI research

2007-11-25 Thread Edward Porter
A few days ago there was some discussion on this list about the potential usefulness of narrow AI to AGI. Nick Cassimatis, who is speaking at AGI 2008, has something he calls Polyscheme which is described partially at the following AGIRI link: http://www.agiri.org/workshop/Cassimatis.ppt

Re: Re[6]: [agi] Funding AGI research

2007-11-25 Thread Benjamin Goertzel
Cassimatis's system is an interesting research system ... it doesn't yet have lotsa demonstrated practical functionality, if that's what you mean by work... He wants to take a bunch of disparately-functioning agents, and hook them together into a common framework using a common logical

RE: Re[4]: [agi] Funding AGI research

2007-11-25 Thread John G. Rose
Yeah - because weak AI is so simple. Why not just make some run-of-the-mill narrow AI with a single goal of Build AGI? You can just relax while it does all the work. I kind of like the idea of building software that then builds AGI. But you could say that that software is part of the AGI