On Apr 6, 2008, at 5:26 PM, Ben Goertzel wrote:
The problem is that investors are generally pretty unwilling to eat
perceived
technology risk. Exceptions arise all the time, and AGI has not yet
been one.
There have been exceptions, just ill-advised ones. :-)
But yes, most investors are actually looking for a Killer Demo(tm) or
unimpeachable credibility, the latter not to be construed as referring
to anyone with an academic AI background in this particular case.
Absent a Killer Demo, my observation is that people with
"unimpeachable credibility" in this case and the genuine technical
ability to plausibly produce results are essentially sets that very
rarely intersect for these purposes. No one on the investment side is
really looking for an AI academic of any type per se when they
consider investing in these kinds of things, but there are few others
in the field (discounting cranks). For better or worse, you need to
be a J. Hawkins or similar. Such is the world we live in.
Cheers,
J. Andrew Rogers
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