Did you submit this as a research proposal somewhere? Did you get a response yet?
I submitted it as a paper to the upcoming AI and Ethics workshop, where it was accepted to be presented in a poster session. I’m not yet sure of the follow-up: I’m currently trying to decide what to do with my life after I graduate with my MSc, and one of the potential paths would involve doing a PhD and developing the research program described in the paper, but I’m not yet entirely sure of whether I’ll follow that path.
Part of what will affect my decision is how useful people feel that this line of research would be, so I appreciate getting your opinion. I hope to gather more data points at the workshop.
Well if academic achievement is you goal, don’t think my opinion should carry much weight—I’m an industry engineer (bitcoin developer) that does AI work in my less than copius spare t.ime. I don’t know how well respected this work would be in academia. To reiterate my own opinion, I think it is the most important AGI work we could be doing however.
Have you posted to the OpenCog mailing list? You’d find some like-minded academics there who can give you some constructive feedback, including naming potential advisors.
EDIT: Gah I wish I knew about that workshop sooner. I’m going to be in Peurto Rico for the Financial Crypto ’15 conference, but I could have swung by on my way. Do you know kanzure from ##hplusroadmap on freenode (Bryan Bishop)? He’s a like-minded transhumanist hacker in the Austin area. You should meet up while you’re there. He’s very knowledgeable on what people are working on, and good at providing connections to help people out.
Thanks for the suggestion! I’m not on that mailing list (though I used to be), but I sent a Ben Goertzel and another OpenCog guy a copy of the paper. The other guy said he’d read it, but that was all that I heard back. Might post it to the mailing list as well.
Do you know kanzure from ##hplusroadmap on freenode (Bryan Bishop)? He’s a like-minded transhumanist hacker in the Austin area. You should meet up while you’re there. He’s very knowledgeable on what people are working on, and good at providing connections to help people out.
Glad to hear that!
I submitted it as a paper to the upcoming AI and Ethics workshop, where it was accepted to be presented in a poster session. I’m not yet sure of the follow-up: I’m currently trying to decide what to do with my life after I graduate with my MSc, and one of the potential paths would involve doing a PhD and developing the research program described in the paper, but I’m not yet entirely sure of whether I’ll follow that path.
Part of what will affect my decision is how useful people feel that this line of research would be, so I appreciate getting your opinion. I hope to gather more data points at the workshop.
Well if academic achievement is you goal, don’t think my opinion should carry much weight—I’m an industry engineer (bitcoin developer) that does AI work in my less than copius spare t.ime. I don’t know how well respected this work would be in academia. To reiterate my own opinion, I think it is the most important AGI work we could be doing however.
Have you posted to the OpenCog mailing list? You’d find some like-minded academics there who can give you some constructive feedback, including naming potential advisors.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/opencog
EDIT: Gah I wish I knew about that workshop sooner. I’m going to be in Peurto Rico for the Financial Crypto ’15 conference, but I could have swung by on my way. Do you know kanzure from ##hplusroadmap on freenode (Bryan Bishop)? He’s a like-minded transhumanist hacker in the Austin area. You should meet up while you’re there. He’s very knowledgeable on what people are working on, and good at providing connections to help people out.
Thanks for the suggestion! I’m not on that mailing list (though I used to be), but I sent a Ben Goertzel and another OpenCog guy a copy of the paper. The other guy said he’d read it, but that was all that I heard back. Might post it to the mailing list as well.
Thanks, I sent him a message. :)
I would actually post to the list. It’s a pretty big and disparate community there, so you’re likely to get a diverse collection of responses.