AI veteran recounts betting on universal AI with Minsky's list since 2000
examachine · x · 2026-10-12
@examachine shares his origin story: he co-founded the AI Philosophy mailing list with Marvin Minsky and MIT Media Lab collaborators in 2000, systematically analyzed every AI approach, bet on Schmidhuber and Hutter's universal AI path at IDSIA, and started his R&D company in 2010 to prove it was the route to human-level AI.
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