[ExI] Did Hugo de Garis leave the field?

[Gina Miller]

Hugo de Garis Part 1 of a video series on vimeo:
http://vimeo.com/20767040

Gina "Nanogirl" Miller
www.nanogirl.com 




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Loosemore" <rpwl at lightlink.com>
To: "ExI chat list" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2011 1:41 PM
Subject: [ExI] Did Hugo de Garis leave the field?


> 
> 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.
>> 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.
> 
> 
> 
> Richard Loosemore
> 
> 
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