Re: [agi] an AGI by Minsky and Singh

2005-06-12 Thread J . Andrew Rogers
On Jun 12, 2005, at 2:02 AM, Ben Goertzel wrote: But, your assertion that any competently articulated, competently led AGI project should be able to fairly easily raise $5M in venture funding is *also* based on a basket of assumptions, which you didn't make explicit in your message! Yes,

RE: [agi] an AGI by Minsky and Singh

2005-06-11 Thread Ben Goertzel
.listbox.com Subj: [agi] an AGI by Minsky and Singh FYI: from http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ai-philosophy/messages Pei --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marvin Minsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you know of any types of architectures that seem more promising? In you opinion, what types of research might

Re: [agi] an AGI by Minsky and Singh

2005-06-11 Thread Pei Wang
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: agi@v2.listbox.com Subj: [agi] an AGI by Minsky and Singh

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] an AGI by Minsky and Singh

2005-06-10 Thread Wang, Pei
FYI: from http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ai-philosophy/messages Pei --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marvin Minsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you know of any types of architectures that seem more promising? In you opinion, what types of research might be on the right track? Sure. We are building