On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Matt Mahoney <[email protected]> wrote: > $40k already >> budgeted
Despicable me has been quiet for too long but it is time to scream a gigantic WTF! Why can't you do one of the things other normal people do to get hold of 40K, unheard of things like "get a job", "go on kickstarter", "start an AGI makerspace collective", "rob a bank"! The "three people who generate all the list traffic", ocassionally 5 or 6 of them, even if they have interesting roadmaps or hunches are their own worst enemies and bottlenecks. Paraphrasing Yoda, post not or build teams, there is no try! Even arranging some SSL certificates for the latest revision of my roadmap and aligning some PNGs on a couple of websites I am spending half a week, I need helpers and so do you, and you, and you. Given that I still view the problem as an engineering problem I neither can comprehend what amazing mathematical edifice will do the trick nor do I see how there could be one or two key insights which Matt has been fishing for in vain. Of course it has to be engineered and be "fit for purpose", which largely was not the case with Watson and very partially is the case with Vicarious (they assure us CAPTCHA cracking is a side effect of their "correct" A-cortex architecture, it may well be). As an engineering project it does need investment or a bootstrap business model, and as a novel undertaking it may fail the first x times. I think I finally came up with a bootstrapping concept that might just work, if it can attract the investment for the initial lift-off. I've had less than limited success recruiting and sourcing for the project, but my concept/pitch only recently reached maturity in my biased opinion. I will try to pitch it in Northern Europe and if I hit cultural, financial or talent limits I will take it somewhere bigger. And so should you! AT ------------------------------------------- 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
