From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Oct 17 2005 - 15:18:10 MDT
Brian Atkins wrote:
> 
> Wasting time on robot engineering is not high on our agenda.
That's a bit harsh.  Robot engineering is an acid test of difficult 
capabilities, with realtime response being the most obvious example. 
Generalizable computer science tricks come out of robot engineering.  I 
agree that SIAI would probably not venture into robot engineering unless 
we already had AI strong enough to meet that test without a lot of 
special-case special-purpose engineering.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://intelligence.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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