I think this is natural. I would do the same, if my job would be to lead the creation of AGI in any group you have mentioned; try to collect the best brains, and monitor (and store) all important development happening. And they have more money for the job than any university, or other research facilities, groups. And also, I dont think they are publishing all their results, so they have a some advantage in creating the first AGI (but luckily there are a lot of civil competitors).
I can only hope that at least the first AGI will be friendly (for all humanity, and not a company or state), since in general they will be selfish concerning their owner (except if regulated centrally, like by Asimov).
Bests,
Márk
On 12/18/05, Shane Legg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My AGI ideas continue to brew away, as they have done for many years.
I like to keep a fairly low profile for a few reasons, one being that every year
I realise how little I knew the previous year! I am however busy in my thesis
area of theoretical models of universal super intelligence (AIXI etc.) and so
publish and turn up in magazines etc. from time to time. I also write a blog
that gets a fair amount of daily traffic.
Recently, however, it seems that I've somehow come to the attention of
certain groups. To start with I thought that the hits I was getting from various
military and military related companies were just random and part of the
growing number of hits that my blog and website were getting. But things
have since become more systematic, with military related aerospace
companies, various military bases and even a certain five sided building
doing automated scans of my research site, downloading my papers and
also scanning my blog.
Yeah I know, that sounds crazy. I mean, if these people wanted to watch
me, they wouldn't be scanning my stuff using a computer with a Pentagon
or other high profile DNS addresses right? I'm sure that if they really wanted
to watch me they would be far more sneaky and I'd never know about it.
I can only presume that for what ever reason, they don't mind me knowing
that I'm being watched. I've also found out through other channels that I
have attracted some interest. So they aren't being very secret about it.
Anyhow, I presume that the reason I'm attracting attention has something
to do with my research interests in models of super intelligence, AGI and
so on. I can't imagine that anything else about me could be of the slightest
interest to them at all.
Which brings me to my question: Are we (people interested in AGI)
being watched?
I'd always just presumed that we weren't considered very interesting,
at least, not yet.
Shane
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