As described in my Texai roadmap, it might be possible to achieve AGI using primarily volunteer, no-cost human labor. A precondition is a human/computer interface that can intelligently acquire knowledge and skills, and is compelling enough for early adopters to use it. If the profit motive is removed (e.g. open source / open content) then on one hand volunteerism is encouraged, and on the other hand barriers to widespread utilitization are reduced (e.g. like Wikipedia).
For me the tipping point will be the demonstration of an English dialog system that intelligent seeks to acquire more knowledge and skills, and is freely deployable in a distributed fashion to a multitude of peer-users as a virtual applicance. I believe, without any supporting evidence beyond my own limited experience in our field, that only a small kernel of hand-written code is required to set this off. What that code might be is the question! For WIkipedia, it is MediaWiki. -Steve Stephen L. Reed Artificial Intelligence Researcher http://texai.org/blog http://texai.org 3008 Oak Crest Ave. Austin, Texas, USA 78704 512.791.7860 ----- Original Message ---- From: Eric B. Ramsay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, April 8, 2008 9:56:58 PM Subject: Re: Promoting AGI (RE: [singularity] Vista/AGI) If I understand what I have read in this thread so far, there is Ben on the one hand suggesting $10 mil. with 10-30 people in 3 to 10 years and on the other there is Matt saying $1quadrillion, using a billion brains in 30 years. I don't believe I have ever seen such a divergence of opinion before on what is required for a technological breakthrough (unless people are not being serious and I am being naive). I suppose this sort of non-consensus on such a scale could be part of investor reticence. Eric B. Ramsay __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------- 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=98631122-712fa4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
