On May 10, 2007, at 6:29 PM, Benjamin Goertzel wrote:
Ben, I imagine, more or less knows the open-source truth in talking
about an
AGI "Manhattan Project." But even that would be too small. The whole
world -
the whole Internet - will have to be involved..
I don't really agree with this.
A Manhattan project would be awesome and would maximize odds of
success ...
but I'm confident that with brilliance, a good AGI design and a bit
of luck,
a small team can get to the finish line ;-)
I tend to agree. Many hands and eyeballs are great for a project of
many relatively isolatable components whose requirements and
interaction are relatively understood. But AGI is pushing the
envelope tremendously and, to the degree I understand current designs
and design strategies, a set of very tightly inter-related parts need
to be designed and build. Many of the parts themselves much less
their interaction are being created and integrated out of whole
cloth. Small, high bandwidth, concentrated and brilliant teams are
required. The vast majority of all programmers/hackers are not
qualified. Even of the number that is only a small subset can be
formed into a cohesive enough team for this intense a task. If
anything is likely to be a natural cathedral rather than a bazaar it
is AGI.
- samantha
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