The project was founded officially in 2001 but for much of the time
between 2001 and 2004 there was NOBODY working on it full time. All
of us founders had "day jobs", either actual jobs or AI consulting
jobs, needed to pay the bills.
For the last couple years there were 2-3 people working on it
full-time. Now there are 3 people working on it full-time, and a
fourth just came on board, but hasn't come up to speed yet. Plus
much-valued part-time efforts from a few others.
Actually, I realized I phrased things a little too pessimistically in
the above.
During the period 2001-2004, we had a number of staff working on
consulting projects that used the Novamente core system to do various
practical narrow-AI things like natural language processing and
bioinformatic data analysis. This helped us build out the core system
and refine various AI algorithms used within the Novamente AGI system.
But still, it's different than having staff actually working on building
out Novamente **as an AGI system**. The work done on these
Novamente-core-utilizing consulting projects did get us a certain
distance toward AGI, but in the end we found there was only so much
mileage we could get this way, because the requirements of the
consulting projects were too different from the requirements of
Novamente as an AGI system.
Which led us to our current direction ... which I will discuss in
another email a little later ;-)
ben
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