RE: [agi] an AGI by Minsky and Singh

2005-06-11 Thread Ben Goertzel
I'll comment more on the design later, I'm away from home for a few days... But I can't resist one comment: How telling that even MINSKY can't get serious funding for an explicitly AGI focused project!!! -- Ben -Original Message- From: Wang, Pei Date: 6/11/05 1:32 am To:

Re: [agi] an AGI by Minsky and Singh

2005-06-11 Thread Pei Wang
I have to admit that the bad news somehow make me feel better. ;-) I posted a brief comment on their design to that group, and won't cross-post it here. Pei On 11 Jun 2005 07:33:55 -0400, Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll comment more on the design later, I'm away from home for a

Re: [agi] an AGI by Minsky and Singh

2005-06-11 Thread J . Andrew Rogers
On Jun 11, 2005, at 5:54 PM, Danny G. Goe wrote: What is the estimated cost of Seed AI? How do you want to define cost? Initial capital investment? Total capital outlay at some arbitrary point in time? The parameters for cost are not simple even for a vanilla startup. If a someone

Re: [agi] an AGI by Minsky and Singh

2005-06-11 Thread Ben Goertzel
Hi, If a someone actually knows what they are doing to the extent that they can guarantee interesting results at the time of funding i.e. not chasing yet another random hypothesis, the cost for seed AI should not be more than on the order of USD$5 million in my opinion. If it costs more than

[agi] (AGI) Start up cost...

2005-06-11 Thread DGoe
Even a simple start up with some expert systems and a good knowledge base could possible start to predict economics of markets, which could be capitalized on to cover further development cost. Once the accuracy of the predictions become above a certain point then you will have many

Re: [agi] (AGI) Start up cost...

2005-06-11 Thread Ben Goertzel
Even a simple start up with some expert systems and a good knowledge base could possible start to predict economics of markets, which could be capitalized on to cover further development cost. Once the accuracy of the predictions become above a certain point then you will have many

[agi] AGI vs Selective AI projects...

2005-06-11 Thread DGoe
As AGI develops selective AI projects can be a side issue and those in-house learning between the two projects reinforcing even a better AGI project as the AGI project will have the benefit of the Selective AI expertise and experience. Devising search techniques that will have a better chance

[agi] Development cost...

2005-06-11 Thread DGoe
Drug companies pour millions and sometimes more into drug research... This takes a large expected return to cover the cost of development and testing. Dan G From : J.Andrew Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To : agi@v2.listbox.com Subject : Re: