From: Ben Goertzel (ben@goertzel.org)
Date: Wed Sep 07 2005 - 08:22:56 MDT
> I say all this mindful of the fact that there are some radical projects
> going on at the moment. I have looked at these, and from what I see,
> the teams, though briliant, do not know anything about psychology. I
> have no reason to be optimistic about those efforts.
>
> Richard Loosemore
Hi Richard,
As it happens, I'm leading an AGI research/engineering project (Novamente),
and I do know something about psychology, having published a few psych
papers and having been a Research Fellow in a psych department for a few
years in the mid-1990's (at the University of Western Australia).
However, I don't agree with your point that making AGI work would require
> a serious revolution in the
> art of software tool building.
I agree that such a revolution would make things a lot easier, but not
that it's necessary.
And I would be very reluctant to shift my team's focus from AGI to
tool-building.
The amount of resources focused on AGI within the Novamente project is
already small enough right now (about 2.5 FTE), to introduce tool-building
work in parallel would basically bring the project to a standstill...
IMO current tools are awkward but not unworkable for AGI engineering
purposes.
-- Ben
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