Any opinions on where Goertzel's stuff stands in relation to whatever there is that passes for state of the art in AGI research?
And is it even worth trying to have this conversation on LW? We don't seem to see much anything here about AI that actually does stuff that's being worked on right now (Google cars, IBM Watson, DeepMind etc) beyond what you can read in a press release. Is all of the interesting stuff proprietary, so we don't get bored grad students coming here chatting about it, or is there an understanding with the people involved with actual AI research that LW and MIRI are not worth bothering with?
is there an understanding with the people involved with actual AI research that LW and MIRI are not worth bothering with?
As far as DeepMind goes, Jaan Tallinn was involved in it and is one of the biggest donors to MIRI.
If I look at the participant list of MIRI workshops they always had a person from Google in attendance.
Ben Goertzel has made available a pre-print copy of his book Engineering General Intelligence (Vol1, Vol2). The first volume is basically the OpenCog organization's roadmap to AGI, and the second volume a 700 page overview of the design.