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[The Speculist] Ben Goertzel says that his team at Novamente is about seven years of work away from true AI "infant" that can begin to ascend the cognitive ladder towards human intelligence.
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Sentient Developments: Be sure to check out Ben's AGI talk. If you're interested in what he has to say, check out some more videos here and listen to his recent speech, "Artificial General Intelligence and the Singularity," as presented on Changesurfer Radio. (via Cosmos)
Existence is Wonderful: Plenty of already-existing (and perfectly functional) people seem to use brains and brain structures in different ways from other people -- at least when it comes to "higher" cognitive faculties (I'm not talking about automatic processes like breathing.) There's a bias even in modern neuroscience to attempt to claim that a functional majority is the "standard" and that nonstandard configurations are invalid and therefore diseased, however, I disagree with this approach (obviously!) and think that one of the ways in which neuroscience could more readily help in understanding intelligence overall would be to consider the different ways in which different brain structures can be used. (via Cosmos)
The Streeb-Greebling Diaries: in which Ben Goertzel talks about the various possibilities of reaching a technological singularity, and discusses his own approach to producing an artificial general intelligence (AGI). I don't know much about the details of the Novamente system, other than it's mostly based around GOFAI techniques and runs on Linux servers. (via Cosmos)
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