The Minimum Viable Product notion has proved itself useful in the domain of technology-based product development, not groundbreaking research.... The two domains are pretty different.
Product-wise, I'm interested in the idea of a robot toddler as a toy .... This at least feels clearly on the direct path to AGI, to me... -- Ben G On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 8:15 PM, Russell Wallace <[email protected]>wrote: > :) > > But seriously, that's too unruly and all-encompassing an idea for an MVP. > Setting aside our different degrees of optimism regarding what can be > accomplished within our lifetimes, I'm still of the opinion that even if > your ambition is fully human level AGI, there needs to be a more focused > MVP objective. > > For example, if your primary focus is natural language processing, you > might aim for a big chatbot. If your primary focus is robotics, you might > aim for a big Roomba. A few years ago I was thinking in terms of a big > theorem prover; these days my current idea looks more like a big scripting > language interpreter. > > > On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> >> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 7:21 PM, Russell Wallace < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Good questions are useful. How about this one: >>> >>> ... >> >>> >>> If you are trying to design an AGI, what is your design going to be a >>> big version of? >>> >>> >> >> >> Uhhh... >> >> Me >> >> ? >> ... >> >> ;) ben >> *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> >> <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/1658954-f53d1a3f> | >> Modify <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> Your Subscription >> <http://www.listbox.com> >> > > *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 "In an insane world, the sane man must appear to be insane". -- Capt. James T. Kirk ------------------------------------------- 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
