Re: [agi] AGI interests

[Paul Tiffany]

Like Elihu, I'm also a lurker on this list.  I'm almost finished undergrad
at UVa in Music and Economics: My main interest is the blossoming
Neo-Luddite a cappella movement.  After I graduate, I will enter that sphere
at an audio engineer, although hopefully I will continue work as a
musicologist and avant-garde composer.  Much of my interest in music
involves the level of incorporation of technology into music: the paradox of
the recorded (or mic'ed) acoustic or a cappella performances, for instance.


I have almost no technical experience with AGI.  The fact that I'm lurking
this list should be encouraging: Although the AI field has had a nefarious
history, there really is a resurgence of interest.  We've seen hype and
crash in technology countless times (from the very painful experience of
flying your dot.com into the ground to Vista's voice recognition demos).  I
want to encourage you all: Although we all (even a musician) have strong
opinions about AGI, we mostly agree - else we wouldn't be on this list!

http://myspace.com/ptiff
I'll compose something for you AGI guys sometime.

On 3/26/07, Elihu Herskovics <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


David Clark writes:
>
> >Everyone on this list is quite different.
>
> It would be interesting to see what basic interests and views the
> members of
> this list hold.  For a few people, published works answer this pretty
> clearly but that's not true for most list members.



Hi.  Right now i'm a freshman in college pursuing an electrical
engineering degree with a leaning towards CS.  My interest in AGI started a
few years ago and has recently started to grow rapidly, to the point that I
now hope to enter a career involved in either AGI programming or neural
interfacing work.  I'm still at the stage that i don't know enough to
contribute to mailing lists like this and sl4, but enjoy learning and hope
it won't be to long before I can participate in research and discussions
like those that populate this list.

Elihu Herskovics

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Re: [agi] Beyond AI chapters up on Kurzweil

[Paul Tiffany]

I agree.  The flies are named Extropia and Extrasense.  Haha.  I can't
believe they don't use PHPBB though... that's really annoying.  I wish
idiots like that didn't exist though, because I'm sure there are people who
don't know about better forums who are getting turned off to the movement.
I'll just continue to spam about technology on the ImmInst forums and digg.
:-D

On 6/1/07, Derek Zahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:



I got my copy in the mail last night, just flipped through it so far but
it looks pretty cool -- though I admit I'm probably more curious about your
AGI design ideas than the main topic!

If anybody checks out the stuff on KurzweialAI.net, I advise you to be
careful about the "mind-x" forum.  I believe that is designed to be a
"flypaper" area: because it's attached to a big name and big idea, all kinds
of fruitflies buzz around and get trapped in the discussion forum, where
they shout incoherently at each other.  This is a valuable service, as it
keeps them out from underfoot, but don't get caught yourself wasting time
crafting a response to any of them!


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