Hi,
Mike Deering wrote:
If you really were interested in working on the Singularity you would be designing your education plan around getting a job at the NSA. The NSA has the budget, the technology, the skill set, and the motivation to build the Singularity. Everyone else, universities, private companies, other governments, are lacking in some aspect compared to the NSA. A close second is Japan. They built robots that just lack a brain to be truly useful. They build super computers. They don't want to be number two in this race and they know it's a race, and they know who they are racing against.
Well, if I am right, then I have one thing that the NSA and the Japanese government appear not to have: a workable design for an AGI ;-)
I agree that both the US and Japanese governments are well poised to come up with effective AGI designs eventually ... but I don't agree that someone else ( e.g. my own team) may not get there first.
Historically, to be sure, it has not always been those with the most resources who came up with the right innovation at the right time. To cite one among very many examples, it was Tesla and not Edison who came up with AC power.... Edison had the cash and the team of researchers, and for that matter he had an excellent and relevant track record ... but Tesla, in this instance, had the right insight...
-- Ben G
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