I missed the AMA, but glad to see it here and it looks like there are some team members monitoring this thread so I'll throw some questions out there.<p>I did my MS in AGI at the National Intelligence University with Ben Goertzel as my outside research advisor. My thesis was to determine what were defense implications of an AGI and who was making the best progress toward actually building one.<p>Since then the DoD has started to take an interest in AGI, and in fact today, during my one weekend a month drill at the Pentagon, I had a great long conversation with Maj. General Seng [1] who is heading up efforts around implementing ISR systems with more autonomous capabilities and exploring how an AGI would be utilized in defense.<p>One of our big open questions is what's the "stack" for AGI, conceptually? I didn't come to any conclusion on this and had to make a lot of assumptions to close out the research. I would be curious to hear the OpenAI team's thoughts on it.<p>Will you all be coming to AGI 16 this year in New York?<p>[1] <a href="http://www.af.mil/AboutUs/Biographies/Display/tabid/225/Article/108644/major-general-jocelyn-m-seng.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://www.af.mil/AboutUs/Biographies/Display/tabid/225/Arti...</a>
Scott Alexander expressed some important concerns about the project[0].<p>Edited:<p><del>So far they've managed to label them as "coming from the LessWrong background" and subsequently dismiss via appeal to a strawman Paperclip Maximizer. It doesn't give me much confidence in them.</del><p><ins>Nevermind. I didn't realize this comment was not made by an OpenAI representative. Also, we could use a strikethrough formatting tag on HN. 'dang?</ins><p>I hope they eventually address those points though.<p>[0] - <a href="http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/12/17/should-ai-be-open/" rel="nofollow">http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/12/17/should-ai-be-open/</a>
1. Do you believe solving AI will come from a big company where the employees solving it would have little ownership of the company?<p>2. Currently, there is no solid test for Artificial General Intelligence. How much of a priority is it to create one?<p>-------------------------------------------------------<p>Answering my own questions:<p>1. No, the incentive is just not there.<p>2. Currently, this is my main goal related to Artificial General Intelligence. One should know how far or near they are from creating Artificial General Intelligence.