Tim, Indeed AI has a fair bit of funding, and even AGI has some funding ... OpenCog has some funding here in HK (albeit for research oriented toward gaming and robotics applications, rather than pure AGI), IM-Clever is funded in Europe, Juyang Weng's cognitive robotics work is funded in the US, Wlodek Duch is funded for AGI/neuroscience work in Singapore, etc. etc. ...
However, there is a difference btw modest dribs and drabs of funding, and a major funding initiative.... For instance, genomics was funded before the Human Genome Project ... and rocketry was funded before Apollo..... But in these cases, large funding initiatives led to dramatic results... Obviously, large funding initiatives have also, in other cases, led to poor or mediocre results and wastage of $$ (e.g. the Japanese Fifth Generation AI initiative...) But the point is, there's funding and then there's FUNDING..... And I actually think the benefits of AGI, plus the confluence of advances in computer hardware, software engineering and cognitive science, merit major AGI FUNDING initiatives... And we will probably see this happen within the next, say, 3-10 years.... But it may happen (shortly) *after* some more modestly funded AGI project (OpenCog or something else) demonstrates sufficiently exciting progress to really drive home to the "powers that be" that this is an area whose time has come... -- Ben G On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 6:08 AM, Tim Tyler <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/04/2013 21:41, Matt Mahoney wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 8:03 AM, Logan Streondj <[email protected]> > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Most high ranking developers cost around $60 an hour, that's almost $50,000 > a month. > that's why most of the estimates of how much an AGI project would cost, > quickly escalate into the millions and billions. > > Isn't it ironic that a project that could theoretically automate all > human labor, currently $70 trillion per year, can't get funding? Are > investors really betting that its odds of success are worse than the > lottery? > > > This was probably a "rhetorical" question - but plenty of machine > intelligence > research *is* funded. IARPA, DARPA, NSA, search engines, hedge funds, etc. > > Of course, those who don't get funding are likely to make more complaining > noises about the topic. > -- > __________ > |im |yler http://timtyler.org/ [email protected] Remove lock to reply. > > *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/212726-deec6279> | > Modify<https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;>Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com> > -- Ben Goertzel, PhD http://goertzel.org "My humanity is a constant self-overcoming" -- Friedrich Nietzsche ------------------------------------------- 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
