Joshua Fox wrote:
Surely Marvin Minsky -- a top MIT professor, with a world-beating
reputation in multiple fields -- can snap his fingers and get all the
required funding, whether commercial or non-profit, for AGI projects
which he initiates or supports?
Joshua
No: he was outflanked by the arrival of the "Neat" AI crowd some 15-20
years ago. Essentially, the type of AI he is interested in was declared
to be a thing of the past (aka "Scruffy") and not "scientific", and
therefore that kind of stuff became sidelined.
You could say he was Drexlered.
He also has a reputation for being inspirational, but vague.
Richard Loosemore
2007/10/28, Bob Mottram <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>:
This recent talk by Marvin Minsky may be of interest.
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/484
I know some folks on this list have talked about ways of evangelizing
the AGI effort. The idea that we really need to build smarter
machines to maintain our standards of living in the face of
demographic change and increasing longevity may be a good way of
popularizing the topic in a public arena and injecting some sense of
urgency.
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