RE: Tools for AI and Human Genome Project

From: Ben Goertzel (ben@goertzel.org)
Date: Wed Sep 07 2005 - 15:03:40 MDT


True, but the human genome project had a lot more staff than Novamente. For
our current team, making a fast and scalable AI-friendly and user-friendly
functional programming environment would take a LOT more than one year of
work. It's easier conceptually than building AGI but more
man-hour-intensive.

ben

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-sl4@sl4.org [mailto:owner-sl4@sl4.org]On Behalf Of Phil
> Goetz
> Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 3:17 PM
> To: sl4@sl4.org
> Subject: Tools for AI and Human Genome Project
>
>
> > 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.
>
> Consider the human genome project, in which putting
> a year into trying out the shotgun sequencing approach saved
> years of work.
>
> - Phil
>
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