Colin, You'll be back, when you discover that present-day computers are orders of magnitude too slow to do anything useful.
Steve =========== On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 12:55 AM, Colin Hales <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi AGI folk, > > Following that flurry of activity (IGI etc) earlier this year I became > bogged down in the final stages of a family matter involving an unresolved > Will. That matter has now been put to bed. It took 8 months all up and was > very unpleasant. > > Having returned to see what the personal AGI detritus looked like I > reviewed where I am and decided to act. Bottom line: I have turned the > garage into a robotics AGI lab from which this email is being written. That > took another huge effort. > > I have written up the natural-AGI, analytic-AGI, synthetic-AGI 1950s > science cockup and am looking at publishing it. I expect to be ignored. I > am so over all the BS related to the science. Frankly the journal system > can shove it. Real science left the building long ago. I don't need to > publish to make the damned robots. I plan to get the young involved and let > them run with it. I seem to have reached the 60 year-old curmudgeon stage > and am not taking prisoners. > > I really appreciated all the enthusiasm over the IGI and am sorry but I > cannot play. The one thing it told me is that I think the synthetic-AGI > approach's time has come after 65 years in hiatus. Life's too short to > spend any more time on endless gabfests and making clubhouses and their > acolytry ... When I am done, if it works, the robots will demonstrate > themselves. If they don't well screw it. I tried. > > So I am going off the radar (intermittent passive list lurking maybe > forever) except for a shop-front www.bionicbrain.info blog series to > keep the end-game branding active for funding purposes. If I am visibly > back, ever, it will be in the company of some kind of shambolic bespoke > robot(s) with a distributed synthetic-AGI brain festooned all over them. It > will have taught itself everything it knows and there won't be a line of > code in it that relates to its intelligence or its knowledge. That's what a > real AGI looks like. Physics. > > I hope that the robots will attract the funding needed to transform them > beyond a garage hack. Who knows? > > So until then ... all the best ... > > cheers > colin > > *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/10443978-6f4c28ac> | > Modify > <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> > Your Subscription <http://www.listbox.com> > -- Full employment can be had with the stoke of a pen. Simply institute a six hour workday. That will easily create enough new jobs to bring back full employment. ------------------------------------------- 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
