Re: OpenCog Concerns

From: Edward Miller (progressive_1987@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Mar 23 2008 - 02:19:59 MDT


I am wondering if it is possible to specify no
military use in OpenCog's license. Certainly DARPA
would love to get their hands on it if it is useful,
and maybe we ought not to let them.

This actually has been done before:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/14/1850219

Please consider this.

--- Matt Mahoney <matmahoney@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> --- Jeff Herrlich <jeff_herrlich@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > The peer-AGI idea is interesting and not
> impossible, in light of your view,
> > do you believe that we should move forward with
> OpenCog, or not? (I presume
> > that you believe we should move forward).
>
> Yes. I don't believe it can get big enough to be
> dangerous. First, it lacks
> a mechanism to defend against rogue agents. Second,
> from my limited
> understanding of its architecture, modules
> communicate by writing to shared
> atom tables (rather than natural language), which
> precludes a hybrid
> carbon-silicon architecture.
>
>
> -- Matt Mahoney, matmahoney@yahoo.com
>

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