Looks like they hit a roadblock somewhere:
The Java Supercompiler Version 1 is scheduled for completion in late 2003.
I noticed however that Ben Goertzel is listed under "People". He's an important person in the field of Artificial General Intelligence (like Eliezer who posts here from time to time). I'm not sure if there's a link between this (apparently dead) research project and his AGI project Novamente.
Novamente is written in Java and is in the symbolic/probabilistic vein of AGI schemes. From very loose and unsourced scuttlebut I have heard from time to time that performance has been an issue. To go out on a limb, I would venture a guess that it has a lot of possible optimizations which are too difficult for a compiler but would eat up a lot of programmer time and hinder the extreme flexibility and changeability that Novamente would need, and so a smarter optimizer would be of considerable interest to Goertzel.
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Looks like they hit a roadblock somewhere: The Java Supercompiler Version 1 is scheduled for completion in late 2003.
I noticed however that Ben Goertzel is listed under "People". He's an important person in the field of Artificial General Intelligence (like Eliezer who posts here from time to time). I'm not sure if there's a link between this (apparently dead) research project and his AGI project Novamente.
Novamente is written in Java and is in the symbolic/probabilistic vein of AGI schemes. From very loose and unsourced scuttlebut I have heard from time to time that performance has been an issue. To go out on a limb, I would venture a guess that it has a lot of possible optimizations which are too difficult for a compiler but would eat up a lot of programmer time and hinder the extreme flexibility and changeability that Novamente would need, and so a smarter optimizer would be of considerable interest to Goertzel.
On the other hand, program optimization in general has been called an AI-complete problem (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/AI-complete), so maybe the reason is the other way around.
Recently found http://www.sl4.org/archive/0205/3632.html . Not too sure what Goertzel's interest is - it looks like 'this is neat'.
Wow, I thought Novamente was written in C++. Your post makes a lot of sense.
Oops; I checked and Novamente is actually written in C++: http://www.agiri.org/wiki/Novamente_Cognition_Engine#Current...
Turns out it was Novamente's predecessor, the Webmind AI Engine, that was written in Java.