What SIAI could do to help the image problem: Get credible grown-ups on board.
The main team looks to be in their early thirties, and the visiting fellows mostly students in their twenties. With the claims of importance SIAI is making, people go looking for people over forty who are well-established as serious thinkers, AI experts or similarly known-competent folk in a relevant field. There should be either some sufficiently sold on the SIAI agenda to be actually on board full-time, or quite a few more in some kind of endorsing partnership role. Currently there’s just Ray Kurzweil on the team page, and beyond “Singularity Summit Co-Founder”, there’s nothing there saying just what his relation to SIAI is, exactly. SIAI doesn’t appear to be suitably convincing to have gotten any credible grown-ups as full-time team members.
There are probably good reasons why this isn’t useful for what SIAI is actually trying to do, but the demographic of thirty-somethings leading the way and twenty-somethings doing stuff looks way iffier at a glance for “support us in solving the most important philosophical, societal and technological problem humanity has ever faced once and for all!” than it does for “we’re doing a revolutionary Web 3.0 SaaS multi mobile OS cloud computing platform!”
What SIAI could do to help the image problem: Get credible grown-ups on board.
The main team looks to be in their early thirties, and the visiting fellows mostly students in their twenties. With the claims of importance SIAI is making, people go looking for people over forty who are well-established as serious thinkers, AI experts or similarly known-competent folk in a relevant field. There should be either some sufficiently sold on the SIAI agenda to be actually on board full-time, or quite a few more in some kind of endorsing partnership role. Currently there’s just Ray Kurzweil on the team page, and beyond “Singularity Summit Co-Founder”, there’s nothing there saying just what his relation to SIAI is, exactly. SIAI doesn’t appear to be suitably convincing to have gotten any credible grown-ups as full-time team members.
There are probably good reasons why this isn’t useful for what SIAI is actually trying to do, but the demographic of thirty-somethings leading the way and twenty-somethings doing stuff looks way iffier at a glance for “support us in solving the most important philosophical, societal and technological problem humanity has ever faced once and for all!” than it does for “we’re doing a revolutionary Web 3.0 SaaS multi mobile OS cloud computing platform!”