On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Eric B. Ramsay wrote: > It took Microsoft over 1000 engineers, $6 Billion and several years to make > Vista. Will building an AGI be any less formidable? If the AGI effort is > comparable, how can the relatively small efforts of Ben (comparatively > speaking) and others possibly succeed? If the effort to build an AGI is not > comparable, why not? Perhaps a consortium (non-governmental) should be > created specifically for the building of an AGI. Ben talks about a Manhattan > style project. A consortium could pool all resources currently available > (people and hardware), actively seek private funds on a continuing basis > and give coherence to the effort. >
Oooooohh! Flamebait, yummy! The building of Vista was a total shambles and produced a worse OS than XP. The initial project was scrapped and bits that mostly worked were flung together to get something out the door, so the mugs (sorry, customers) could continue pouring money into Microsoft. Don't use that as a basis for estimates of any kind. BillK ------------------------------------------- singularity Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/11983/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/11983/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=4007604&id_secret=96140713-a54b2b Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
