>> Watson is 20 people for 3 years and $3 million for hardware. What is >> it for OpenCog? > > *AND* 3 million just for hardware? I dream of $3 million funds just > for hardware! > > For OpenCog the numbers are much much less. Ben knows the exact > numbers, and I'd guess they can't be shared completely publicly, but I > think it's less than 12 people (across the range of OpenCog-related > projects, a lot less than that for AGI specific development). There is > very little for generally available hardware, although we got USD 12k > at the beginning of the HK project for desktop machines.
Hard to calculate because so many OpenCog staff are split btw OpenCog AGI-oriented work and other application-specific work combining OpenCog code with other code... At the moment there are around 10 people working on OpenCog, but only a handful working on core AGI-ish stuff, the rest working on application-ish stuff... Altogether, throughout the project's history since 2008, there may have been ~18-20 human-years of work... but it all depends on how you count it. And the work has been balanced in an odd way, e.g. lots of work on MOSES for data-analysis applications, which has been fruitful, but not the emphasis one would necessarily take if AGI were one's only goal.... There were also some man-years put into the Novamente Cognition Engine codebase during 2001-2007, parts of which were open-sourced to form the seed version of OpenCog... As to how much time/effort is required to complete the OpenCog implementation, I don't think that's the important question.... The important question is how much time/effort is needed to produce something that will be impressive enough to make it much easier to gain additional funds.... I'm quite confident this could be done by a small team of outstanding, dedicated programmers within a few years. This is what I'm pushing for, but the logistics are frankly kind of difficult... -- Ben G ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
