I disagree. If even a half-baked, partial, buggy, slow simulation of a human mind were available the captains of industry would jump on it in a second.
Do you remember when no business had an automated answering service? That transition took only a few years. No, the problem is, the theoretical framework of AI just isn't there. The AI academics have nothing to deliver. Arthur C Clarke, a decent visionary, wrote (in fiction, in the mid-60's) that HAL9000 was commissioned in 1992, a comfortable 30 year lead time. In that time and since computer hardware has enjoyed many orders of magnitude improvement. AI software, in terms of human mentality, has remained dead in the water, a pretty boat with no motor, no sail, no oars and no rudder. ________________________________ From: Panu Horsmalahti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 3:45 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [singularity] Bootstrapping AI 2007/6/4, Matt Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: If you are looking for a computer simulations of a human mind, you will be disappointed, because there is no economic incentive to build such a thing. -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- 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/?member_id=4007604&user_secret=7d7fb4d8
