[yagizdegirmenci]

I looked it up, the author has PhD in Brain and Cognitive Science.

Are you aware of the fact that even partially implementing something like this, would require multi-year effort with dozens of engineers at minimum and will cost millions of dollars just for training.

[jerf]

"even partially implementing something like this, would require multi-year effort with dozens of engineers at minimum and will cost millions of dollars just for training"

Unfortunately, that means that's also the bar for being able to utter the words "IMPLEMENTING THIS IN A MACHINE WILL ENABLE ARTIFICIAL GENERAL INTELLIGENCE" and being taken seriously. In fact the bar is even higher than that, since merely meeting the criteria you lay out is still no guarantee of success, it is merely an absolute minimum.

The fact that that is a high bar means simply that; it's a high bar. It's not a bar we lower just because it's really hard.

[jmac01]

I'm the best musician on earth but I can't play any instruments but I can imagine a really amazing song, you'll just never hear it because it would take 1000s of hours of me practicing to actually learn to play so that I could prove it. So you'll just have to make do with my words and believe me when I say I'm the best musician alive.

Here's an article I wrote describing the song but without actually writing any of the notes because I can't read or write music either.

But I've listened to a lot of music and my tunes are better than those.

I went to school for music description so I know what I'm talking about.

[yagizdegirmenci]

You can go into studio with a producer and turn your ideas into a beat and then to a song. The same thing does not applies to engineering.

This is like comparing apple with an orange.

[gremlinsinc]

well, you could hire a team of developers and neuroscientists to build a prototype of the idea and concept and do physical research, whether you yourself have the chops to do it yourself is irrelevant at that point.

[yagizdegirmenci]

You still can't see the difference, can you?

[sram1337]

The perfect way to never have your theories invalidated

[yagizdegirmenci]

I think this is a wrong way to look at the Academia, theoretical groundwork is essential for building practical things.

[olddustytrail]

That's a tiny team, a short timescale, and a trivial cost.

Seriously, when you're a bit older you'll see more wasted on the most useless ideas.

[yagizdegirmenci]

I also think so, in the context of "at minimum".