Could be the last startup ever, but I am not betting my money on it. Would be cool though if they re-named the company to <i>Last Startup</i> :)<p>"Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an 'intelligence explosion,' and the intelligence of man would be left far behind. Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make." - I. J. Good
The founder Dileep George was a founder/advisor at Numenta. I believe it was his paper on HTMs that led to its founding. He left in 2010, but curious as to how Recursive Cortical Networks differ from Numenta's product, which is moving waaay more slowly than they would like.
My immediate reaction is to be skeptical. AI has been tried before and has failed many, many, times.<p>Having said that, I think this exactly the sort of innovation timeline real venture capitalists should be considering - funding real R&D that could have a revolutionary impact even if the odds are against it.<p>If I had a lot of money that I really didn't need I would invest it. That is meant to be a compliment.<p>Best of luck. This is what smart people should be doing.
There are quite a lot of people working on this 'problem' of AGI; amateurs, academics and commercial. The 'only way' this would be possible currently is like a Watson; some way of approximating intelligence / learning while not emulating it directly with neurons. While AGI amateurs think we are actually close to that right now, there is not much else pointing in that direction.<p>So let's see what they come up with :) Anyone has more information?<p>Edit: searching for "Recursive Cortical Network" is a good start.
What good is learning software if you don't have the hardware to run it on (and probably wont for a decade) to attain even mammalian levels of intelligence?
Has any consideration been given to making sure the AGI is designed and built to have goals that won't lead it to improve its intelligence vastly beyond human levels, and then do something very bad to humanity? Like, say, use the atoms that make up our bodies to make more processors to increase its computational capacity.