Educational Outreach Initiative
I’d like to see, in addition to reaching out to the current crop of devs, an educational initiative aimed at computer science departments around the world, bringing into the fold the future AGI developers of the world.
Sketch of an AGI Curriculum
On his main site (started in 1995!), Dr. Ben Goertzel sketched out an answer to questions he often gets asked: How best to take up arms in tackling this pesky AGI problem? What books? What, but what do I do? Where do I start? What is your favorite animal print floppy hat? Cheetah? Zebra? (I’m fond of the zebra.)
I believe this information should be easily accessible for budding AGI developers, young and old. It’s quite a daunting list, but not insurmountable given the right constitution, a constitution which will surely reveal itself as the fruit of a proper outreach effort.
Perhaps @bengoertzel would fancy re-imagining this document in the context of SingularityNET, if anything has changed since he originally conceived said document. Or, perhaps, adding additional materials that one might need to “get trained up” on blockchain-specific elements of the SNET vision.
Hopefully we can attract that 10-year-old genius programmer from Kazakhstan that Ben alluded to in a presentation recently if we do this right—by that I’m not suggesting we capture the long tail of the elementary school children of the world, but we could!
But in the end, we should aim to capture long tails, short ones, skinny, curly, any tail we can get. The potential payoff for humanity in developing a true, benevolent superhuman intelligence is just too great.
Marketing
It would be useful to incorporate Sophia in the recruiting efforts by creating a series of YouTube videos appealing to and speaking directly to the future AI devs in a way that they can understand—with liberal use of uptalk for more efficient assimilation into their fertile little gardens.
Okay, all kidding aside, it could be an important tool in reaching this demographic.
Everyone loves Sophia.
Hackathons
The concept of the hackathon would seem greatly appealing to the highly competitive, testosterone-fueled, college-aged set. These events could be hosted at major universities around the world (or at least advertised).
Hosting competitions might not appeal to everyone, and the prospect of creating a baby mind might, and should, provide motivation enough, but I see nothing wrong with a little healthy competition as a way to spur interest and visibility for SingularityNET.
I believe that any tactic that we can employ to accelerate and drive the network effect will be beneficial.
This is all just back-of-the-napkin right now, but I hope this can be developed. I have many more ideas on this and as I think of them, I’ll be updating this post.
Also, @ibby, there could be a lot of content overlap here with your work on the developer side.
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