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
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
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
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