Re: [singularity] Defining the Singularity

[Samantha Atkins]

On Oct 22, 2006, at 11:32 AM, Ben Goertzel wrote: Hi,   Mike Deering wrote: If you really were interested in working on the Singularity you would be designing your education plan around getting a job at the NSA.  The NSA has the budget, the technology, the skill set, and the motivation to build the Singularity.  Everyone else, universities, private companies, other governments, are lacking in some aspect compared to the NSA.  A close second is Japan.  They built robots that just lack a brain to be truly useful.  They build super computers.  They don't want to be number two in this race and they know it's a race, and they know who they are racing against. Well, if I am right, then I have one thing that the NSA and the Japanese government appear not to have: a workable design for an AGI ;-) I would very much doubt the above anyway.  NSA will not pay superior hackers what they can make outside of government nor will they give idealistic hackers room to deploy their creations in keeping with their ideals.   NSA like a lot of government agencies of late is having its mission largely defined in terms of the impossible task of stopping all terrorism.   NSA hackers are famous for their cryptological and mathematical skills not for AI relevant expertise.   Japan, despite a lot of interest back in 5th Generation computer days seems to have a difficult time innovating in advanced software.  I am not sure why.   I agree that both the US and Japanese governments are well poised to come up with effective AGI designs eventually ... but I don't agree that someone else ( e.g. my own team) may not get there first. So how do we get you and your team the necessary funding ASAP to complete your work?  I don't know the legal issues involved but a bunch of very interested fans of Singularity could quite possibly put together the $5 million or so I think you last said you needed pretty quickly.   This was brought up quite some time ago, by me at least, and at the time I think I recall you saying that the right structure wasn't in place to accept such funding.  What is that structure and what is in the way of setting it up? - samantha This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]