Deb Roy at the MIT media lab, and his The Human Speechome Project, are
supposed to have garnered the following resources for a major AI task.
Deb Roy is a very, repeat very, bright guy, at this point in time probably
much brighter than Minsky.
more than 3,000 Seagate SATA drives, more than 300 Hammer Z-Rack
storage enclosures, more than 100 Marvell-based 10G/GbE switches, and
about 400 blade processors. High-performance storage I/O anticipates the
processing of 700 terabytes of data during each 12-hour overnight
analytical run
The following blurbs give some idea of what this hardware is to be used
for
The Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
is developing what the university claims is one of the worlds largest
data storage arrays.
The storage array is being constructed for the Media Lab's
ambitious Human Speechome Project. The array will be used to collect and
analyze video and audio data for a research project designed to better
understand early childhood cognitive development, according to MIT.
This project focuses on the acquisition and analysis of massive
audio-video recordings of human activity in home situations. We are
creating a unique infrastructure for efficiently storing and managing
millions of hours of audio and video, semi-automated meta-data creation,
and statistical machine learning of cross-modal patterns. Applications
include computational modeling of situated language acquisition and other
social/behavioral activities, personal memory augmentation, audio/video
content management, and audio/video analysis for security.
The goal of the Cognitive Machines group is to create systems that
engage in fluid, situated, meaningful communication with human partners.
We seek to understand and model the processes by which words are grounded
in the physical world as a result of embodied perception, action, and
learning. These models are applied to create situated human-machine
interfaces. We also use our computational models as a source of
predictions and possible accounts for a number of cognitive phenomena
including aspects of children's language acquisition, concept formation,
and attention.
Edward W. Porter
Porter & Associates
24 String Bridge S12
Exeter, NH 03833
(617) 494-1722
Fax (617) 494-1822
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-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Loosemore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 8:58 AM
To: agi@v2.listbox.com
Subject: Re: [agi] Minsky and the AI emergency
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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