[agi] Microsoft Launches Singularity

2008-03-24 Thread Ben Goertzel
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Re: [agi] Microsoft Launches Singularity

2008-03-24 Thread Aki Iskandar
Ben - your email scared me. I thought the evil empire (I can say that since I worked for them for a few years) achieved *some* level of cognition / AGI ... even the most rudimentary signs of intelligence / learned behavior - prediction machine. Whew! It's not that at all! I know they are

Re: [agi] Microsoft Launches Singularity

2008-03-24 Thread Bob Mottram
A more likely scenario is that someone else creates an AGI and then Microsoft copies it some time later. But seriously, if someone does manage to produce a working AGI it's probably game over for software engineering and software companies as we know them today. On 24/03/2008, Aki Iskandar

Re: [agi] The Effect of Application of an Idea

2008-03-24 Thread Jim Bromer
Thanks for asking. I will try to come up with a simple model during the next week. I can create an example because the principle can be used in well-defined constrained models or in more extensible models. The theory does not answer all questions about AGI. I would think that should be taken

Re: [agi] Microsoft Launches Singularity

2008-03-24 Thread Aki Iskandar
I agree with your statement, if someone does manage to produce a working AGI it's probably game over for software engineering and software companies as we know them today.But another equally likely scenario is that Microsoft will buy it - and not reverse engineer it. Perhaps they can't

Re: [agi] Microsoft Launches Singularity

2008-03-24 Thread Mark Waser
You're thinking too small. The AGI will distribute itself. And money is likely to be: a.. rapidly deflated, b.. then replaced with a new, alternate currency that truly values talent and effort (rather than just playing with the money supply -- aka interest, commissions, inheritances,

Re: [agi] Microsoft Launches Singularity

2008-03-24 Thread Stephen Reed
I agree with Mark. The reason the readers of this forum should seek to control AGI development is to ensure friendly behavior, rather than leaving this responsibility to an Evil Company or to some military organization. With human labor removed as a constraint on our system's economic