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.
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.