Thanks Ben, this is a major help to those interested in AGI but who
aren't yet "in the know", it's a bit hard to follow this listserv
because there is no central place to search for terms I don't
understand.

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Ben Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>  A lot of students email me asking me what to read to get up to speed on AGI.
>
>  So I started a wiki page called "Instead of an AGI Textbook",
>
>  
> http://www.agiri.org/wiki/Instead_of_an_AGI_Textbook#Computational_Linguistics
>
>  Unfortunately I did not yet find time to do much but outline a table
>  of contents there.
>
>  So I'm hoping some of you can chip in and fill in some relevant
>  hyperlinks on the pages
>  I've created ;-)
>
>  For those of you too lazy to click the above link, here is the
>  introductory note I put on the wiki page:
>
>
>  ********
>
>  I've often lamented the fact that there is no advanced undergrad level
>  textbook for AGI, analogous to what Russell and Norvig is for Narrow
>  AI.
>
>  Unfortunately, I don't have time to write such a textbook, and no one
>  else with the requisite knowledge and ability seems to have the time
>  and inclination either.
>
>  So, instead of a textbook, I thought it would make sense to outline
>  here what the table of contents of such a textbook might look like,
>  and to fill in each section within each chapter in this TOC with a few
>  links to available online resources dealing with the topic of the
>  section.
>
>  However, all I found time to do today (March 25, 2008) is make the
>  TOC. Maybe later I will fill in the links on each section's page, or
>  maybe by the time I get around it some other folks will have done it.
>
>  While nowhere near as good as a textbook, I do think this can be a
>  valuable resource for those wanting to get up to speed on AGI concepts
>  and not knowing where to turn to get started. There are some available
>  AGI bibliographies, but a structured bibliography like this can
>  probably be more useful than an unstructured and heterogeneous one.
>
>  Naturally my initial TOC represents some of my own biases, but I trust
>  that by having others help edit it, these biases will ultimately "come
>  out in the wash.
>
>  Just to be clear: the idea here is not to present solely AGI material.
>  Rather the idea is to present material that I think students would do
>  well to know, if they want to work on AGI. This includes some AGI,
>  some narrow AI, some psychology, some neuroscience, some mathematics,
>  etc.
>
>  *******
>
>
>  -- Ben
>
>
>  --
>  Ben Goertzel, PhD
>  CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC
>  Director of Research, SIAI
>  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>  "If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they
>  will surely become worms."
>  -- Henry Miller
>
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