Re: New AI Prize

Pascal Bourguignon wrote on 09 Oct 2003:

> "Jochen Fromm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> What the AI community needs is a new AI Prize -
>> s.th. like the X-Prize. See http://www.xprize.org/
 
> I suppose it did not occur to you that a prize is 
> allocated only to the winner. A $1-million prize which 
> may look succulent at first, if convoited by a little 
> hundred competitors has actually only a mathematical 
> esperance of $10,000.  That explains why AI commercial
> ventures prefer to work with customers such as the DoD: 
> once they've got the contract, they know before starting
> the development that they'll be paid for it.
 
> On the other hand, contributors of free software 

http://mentifex.virtualentity.com/mind4th.html is free AI.

> are numerous enough but are not motivated by the money. 

http://www.bloggingnetwork.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ailab/ --
the "Poor Man's AI Lab" is for the 'starving artist' type
that wants to work on artificial intelligence -- or bust.

> I doubt that the existence of a AI prize would increase their output.

PayPal donations to the most hardcore code-AI-at-all-costs projects
need be only very meager -- just enough for bare subsistence -- 
and society will obtain the work of the AI-intent for next to nil.
http://mentifex.virtualentity.com/theory5.html is worth how much?

> There are already a number of AI open software projects working.

http://mentifex.virtualentity.com/weblog.html <-- True; but
not for much longer without some outside help via PayPal etc.

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