[ExI] Did Hugo de Garis leave the field?

[Eugen Leitl]

On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 03:41:34PM -0400, Richard Loosemore wrote:
>
> Did this one slip by me unnoticed ... Hugo de Garis decided to call it  
> quits on AGI?
>
> This is from his H+ article at
> http://hplusmagazine.com/2011/04/15/friendly-ai-a-dangerous-delusion/
>
>> One of the reasons I stopped my brain-building work was that I got
>> bored evolving neural net modules for artificial brains. These
>> modules were a black box to me. They worked because they were
>> evolved, but I had no scientific understanding as to why they worked.

Duh, what else did he expect? General theory of AI? There isn't any.

>> I was doing great engineering but lousy science. After 20 years of
>> it, I finally got fed up and turned to other research topics that
>> taxed my own biological human brain more, such as pure math and
>> mathematical physics.
>
> Last time I talked to him he was gung-ho about getting a full-scale AGI
> up and running with those neural nets.  Now he says he got bored and
> abandoned that and went back to physics and math.
>
> Hnnnh.

Another one bites the dust.

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