On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Eric B. Ramsay wrote:
It took Microsoft over 1000 engineers, $6 Billion and several years to make
Vista. Will building an AGI be any less formidable? If the AGI effort is
comparable, how can the relatively small efforts of Ben (comparatively
speaking) and
On 3/16/08, Eric B. Ramsay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It took Microsoft over 1000 engineers, $6 Billion and several years to
make Vista. Will building an AGI be any less formidable? If the AGI effort
is comparable, how can the relatively small efforts of Ben (comparatively
speaking) and others
On 3/16/08, Eric B. Ramsay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Two guys in a garage would never have built the bomb. The question is
whether or not the two efforts are indeed comparable.
Eric B. Ramsay
You're right that software engineering is more amenable to startups than
other kinds of work, but
Just because it takes thousands of programmers to create something as
complex as Vista, does *not* mean that thousands of programmers are required
to build an AGI, since one property of AGI is/can be that it will learn most
of its complexity using algorithms programmed into it.
On Mar 16, 2008, at 9:14 AM, Eric B. Ramsay wrote:
It took Microsoft over 1000 engineers, $6 Billion and several years
to make Vista. Will building an AGI be any less formidable? If the
AGI effort is comparable, how can the relatively small efforts of
Ben (comparatively speaking) and
Lol. Calm down fella. You are going to give yourself a stroke.
Eric B. Ramsay
J. Andrew Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Few people would define the developments task as hiring hundreds of
engineers to do things like write device drivers and apps for
defective Chinese silicon so that little
Hi Matt,
Great topic here.
Remember, the Manhattan Project didn't come about until everyone believed a
global catastrophe was afoot. That kind of mentality seems to help bring
people together to make amazing stuff, in that case explosive stuff. As
narrow AI and robotics become more ubiquitous,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You have to be careful with the phrase 'Manhattan-style project'.
You are right.
On previous occasions when this subject has come up I, at least, have
referred to the idea as an Apollo Project, not a Manhattan Project.
Richard Loosemore
That was a military
