Within Novamente LLC, we currently have 11 people currently working on projects directly related to AGI. But about half of those are working on infrastructural stuff, the other half on more directly AI coding. And our team's dedication to AGI-ish versus commercial work has fluctuated over time due to funding issues....
The size of the team obviously doesn't mean much, the real question is the size of the team relative to the complexity of the particular AGI design. In our case I think we could use about 15 more great coders, so as to have all total in the company about 10 folks doing AI coding, 5 doing general infrastructural stuff, and 10 doing product development related coding. So that for us I think about the 24-coders Peter mentions would be about right -- but only because we're doing product dev as well as pure AGI stuff ... I wouldn't want that many people on Novamente AI coding, it would get too confusing and slow us down. In webmind inc., an AI company i cofounded in the late 90's, we had 40 Ai developers ... but so what .... About 10 of those were working directly on AGi-ish stuff ... but the design we were working on then was soooo big that this team was inadequate. And this was a problem, because I now think that if an AGI design is too big for a team of ~10 AI experts to complete, it's gonna be infeasible to complete it --- AGI work is just too damn complex, deep and dynamic to couple it with the inefficiency of large-team development... We also (Novamente LLC) have a half-dozen staff working on non-AGI narrow-Ai consulting stuff (some of which is quite interesting, including some bioinformatics related to life extension), but that's just an aside and not really relevant here... -- Ben On 7/25/07, Mike Tintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Of course, numerical comparisons are petty, unfair and invidious. But > being that sort of person, I can't help noticing that Peter is promising to > increase his staff to 24 soon. Will that give him the biggest AGI army? How > do the contenders stack up here? > ------------------------------ > 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/?&; > ----- 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&id_secret=28917377-2ba6d5
