One goal or project I was considering (for profit) is a research tool, basically a KB that scans in teh newspapers and articles and extracts pertinent information for others to query against and use. This would help build up a large world knowledge base, and would also be salable to research companies and such. One example of that is the tragedy shooting at VT this past month, I ran some scritps against the news article and came up with a lot of hidden information in there about the Chu guys family and some other conenctions that I wasnt seeing in many of the news articles, that let me go down some other paths to find info.
Another goal or application was a 3D avatar bot like Novamente is now pursuing. This could be used most easily to simulate an autonomous AGI agent that could act in a 3d rich world. James Ratcliff Matt Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: About business. Do you have any specific project goals? Something that might bring in money in the next 3-5 years? It is OK with me if our goal is to build something and give it away. A lot of people have made money that way. Look at Linux. I gave away my PAQ compressor and I've gotten 3 consulting jobs as a result, not counting work I turned down, and I never even looked for work. I just don't want to make the same mistake as Cyc and build something that nobody can use. I know AGI has lots of potential applications, but how are we going to show that our AGI is better than our competition? --- "YKY (Yan King Yin)" wrote: > Hi =) > > I already have a project going on.. but it's still in the planning stage. > The main difficulty is finding people who agree "in the main" about the > basic theory. > > About my project: > > 1. Has to be for-profit, but openness is good. Also it'd be quite different > from conventional companies in that the project is owned by all partners and > decisions are made by voting. > > 2. Knowledge representation is "basically" FOPL, perhaps with probabilities > / fuzziness. This rules out "scruffie" AI folks, sorry. Everyone knows > that intelligence entails a lot of things (eg vision), but I believe there > should be a "core" that is based on a uniform representation. Guess it's > better to skip the scruffie vs neat debate, and simply let people coalesce > to different projects. > > These 2 are the most important criteria. I tend to prefer partners with a > more theoretical slant, rather than churning out code at high speed. > > Some minor points: > > a) language -- unimportant. I think I'll use Lisp for initial development, > then switch to probably C# or Java. It's so difficult to find the right > minds that language should not be a cause of disagreement at all. The > entire project doesn't need to be in same language, but I also believe that > it would not be colossal in size. > > b) reflection -- source-level reflection is not needed for a basically > declarative AGI. Note that this doesn't mean my AGI would not be able > to program itself eventually. > > c) well-documented, sure. > > d) chat room: I say let's start a chat room for AGI in general. I > have started one on freenode.net, channel = #General-Intelligence (for some > reason the names #AGI and #GI were taken). > > e) I'd like to be able to say "everyone can do their own thing" but there > should be some structure that people can agree to, which I think is the KR. > > Cheers! _______________________________________ James Ratcliff - http://falazar.com Looking for something... --------------------------------- Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos. ----- 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/?member_id=231415&user_secret=fabd7936
