> To that end, lets say ou had ten million dollars (or some other large but finite sum), how would you invest that towards AGI?
I would continue what I do - creating the ultimate user experience <https://www.meetup.com/Artificial-Intelligence-Meetup/events/255936823/>. That way, we can also help the AI learn by having it learn interactively together with users. 3 eyes (2 human eyes, a web cam and a screenshot module) see more than, uh... 2 eyes, right? =) Specifically, I want to build an interactive image recognition. User says: "Look at the round thing there", which activates the circle search module. And so on. Today's software interfaces are dearly lacking in AI. Cheers Stefan On Sun, 4 Nov 2018 at 07:50, Alan Grimes <alonz...@verizon.net> wrote: > While I don't really have enough to eat right now, I can't stop thinking > about AI. =\ > > Check out one of intel's few interesting products... Unfortunately it's > server only, available only through OEMs and has some weirdness going on > with it's PCI-E connector (it should only require an x8 slot but it > requires a mechanically x16 slot...) > > Still, very intriguing hardware! > > https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/programmable/products/boards_and_kits/dev-kits/altera/acceleration-card-arria-10-gx.html > > https://www.micron.com/products/advanced-solutions/advanced-computing-solutions/hpc-single-board-accelerators > > AMD has done a really poor job of advertising the capabilities of their > hardware in physics and/or AI simulation use. =\ > Nvidia, of course, has a suite of products ranging from single boards up > to massive rack systems. > > From the software department, we don't have too too much to get excited > about... > > https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.06936 > https://labs.iuii.ua.es/3dperceptionlab/ > > It can be a useful excercise to consider what you would do if you had > vastly more resources than you currently do. To that end, lets say ou > had ten million dollars (or some other large but finite sum), how would > you invest that towards AGI? What currently existing technologies would > you use in your project? When in your project would you buy large scale > hardware? What, in general terms, do you think you would get? What kind > of people would you hire? How long would it take you to validate or > invalidate your approach? > > For me, I'd invest in some high-end workstations equipped with a handful > of high-end boards and some 16 core threadripper processors. I'd have > some more hardware in the server room, enough to test and validate but > not a whole-hog data center. I'd try to identify a handful of high > aptitude individuals and give each the right to hire 2-3 underlings as > both a "farm team" and to handle more mundane tasks. About half of each > work week would be scouring journals, and other literature. Any young > organization in hightech will need to acquire information FAST. The > other half of the week will be getting technologies working in-house. As > I mentioned previously, I see AI, neural interfacing and VR as being the > pillars of the singularity. I'll give the team the freedom to work on > whatever they'll be most effective at on any given day but the goal is > to develop each to the point where synnergies can start happening and > things can take off. I think VR can be a focus because games are Pretty > Good, only a few more orders of magnitude on the physics front can > really go a long way. > > I also think that putting a synthetic person together as soon as > possible will be a critical step to identifying the missing pieces. > > On the AI front, I'd like to take some of the most promising systems > such as Eliasmith's spaun (which was running at 1 second per hour) and > see if I can optimize and scale it enough to operate on usable > timescales. The fundamental problem is that there are a lot of ideas out > there but it requires massive numbers of other things to be working in > order to test them, being able to jump in and test sutff in an hour or > two can be revolutionary. > > -- > Please report bounces from this address to a...@numentics.com > > Powers are not rights. > -- Stefan Reich BotCompany.de // Java-based operating systems ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T2aea40abd4ff90cb-Ma2b71072365ab2357f40cc97 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription