On 3/25/07, rooftop8000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
--- Chuck Esterbrook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 3/24/07, YKY (Yan King Yin) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 3/25/07, rooftop8000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > > > > I think Jey's comment is reasonable. It seems impractical to start a > > > > collaborative AI project without having an AGI design which specifies > > what > > > > modules are there and how they communicate. > > > > > > I hoped someone on the list was smart enough to find one > > > > I have actually proposed such an architecture, in outline. I'm sure Ben G > > and Peter Voss also have their respective architectures. One question is > > whether we can synthesize these different theories. If not, we'd end > > up with a number of isolated groups that do not collaborate in any > > meaningful / significant way. > > That might be bad from your perspective, but I think it could be good > from a global perspective. For one thing, each group will have its own > approach and one will cross the finish line earlier than the others. > Since you can't objectively predict which approach that will be, the > diversity is valuable. Also, the groups may learn from each other or > improve their performance in response to the accomplishment of other > groups. > > The fragmentation of ordinary software development can be frustrating. > There is Java vs. .NET vs. C++ vs. open source (which isn't really > entirely separate from the others). But I'm positive none of these > would have progressed as far without the competition. Hell, Java 5.0 > was *all* about responding to .NET which in turn was very much about > responding to the Java phenomena. And we reap the rewards: there is > more benefit than harm. Too bad java and c++ are pretty horrible languages and they kept better languages from being used.
Well, I didn't say it was a perfect system. :-) Still, even the top 3 put together (Java, C, C++) don't break 50%: http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm And you can see that Python, Ruby and D are on the rise. -Chuck ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?list_id=303
