I've been on this list for 20 years. My impression is the decline started a long time ago when all the big projects at the time like OpenCog, NARS, AIGO, and Genifer, ultimately failed and were abandoned. Some of the people are still here but rarely post any more because they are busy with other things. The people who do post (like me) aren't developing a project, so don't really have much to contribute. The list used to be a place where you could ask questions about AGI, but now we know the answer is lots of hardware, software, data, and money. The big tech companies with trillion dollar market caps are the ones doing AI, not us.
In 2006 I started a text compression benchmark that ultimately showed the superiority of neural networks for language modeling. In 2013 I published a paper estimating the cost of AGI at $1 quadrillion. It's not something I will even attempt to build. But we can talk about where the world is headed, even if we can only play a small part in it. On Sun, Aug 6, 2023, 2:46 PM WriterOfMinds <jennifer.hane....@gmail.com> wrote: > As a fellow user of AiDreams, I get the impression that its decline has > little to do with generative AI. A number of the regulars aged out of the > hobby or simply quit the forum for personal reasons. Others were banned. > And I think we aren't getting new people because forums just aren't "the > place to be" on the internet anymore. I'm connected with several AI > enthusiasts via Twitter and Mastodon who are either doing their own > projects incorporating ChatGPT etc., or pursuing alternate projects despite > the existence of ChatGPT, but they aren't forum members. > *Artificial General Intelligence List <https://agi.topicbox.com/latest>* > / AGI / see discussions <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi> + > participants <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/members> + > delivery options <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription> > Permalink > <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T469692845b7d2d7e-Mbdc64b9b4d637f69d402116c> > ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T469692845b7d2d7e-M8cb2ae77dbf210501cc9a388 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
