Could well be... Right now the Novamente design is a little too big to be a comfortable one-man job even for a genius, but it's off only by a factor of 5 or so, which makes it very plausible that a one-man-sized AGI design exists
and even NM with all its complexities could plausibly be completed to clever-toddler-dom by a team of me plus one awesome programmer with 3-7 years of total focus ben -----Original Message----- From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky Date: 6/12/05 9:38 am To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subj: Re: [agi] estimated cost of Seed AI Alexander E. Richter wrote: > At 20:54 11.06.05 -0400, you wrote: > >>What is the estimated cost of Seed AI? >>Dan > > > one person > 10 hours/day > IQ 180+ > very good memory ("photographic" memory) > high frustration-tolerance > 1000-2000 $/month (To keep mind free from waste and unnecessary thought) > > hardware > 5000 $/year > > it will take 5-10 years (starting now) > it will take 1-7 years (someone working on it already) > > Imho, its more like the development of H1-H4 sea clocks (John Harrison) > > cu Alex More or less "me too". -- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]