Wow Andy....you literally sound like me....
1) I hate this world too, not funny place. I'm building AGI and getting the hey outa here.
2) I too can't program, and lucky since most love my idea I got a senior working on it for free for over 5 days straight. But if you can help me...tell me! Also I need to know what you know. I too made my own whitebox simpleNet design. But it got the plan man, it gots it.
Thanks for your response. Your inference is a little faulty, though. I have been a professional programmer for many years, so I can definitely program. The main reasons I am considering hiring somebody else to program are:
(1) The language I want to use requires about five programs or libraries to be working together, which requires extensive installation knowledge and more, which is different from programming knowledge. I found only one source of documentation on how to integrate these programs, it was a YouTube video, and it didn't even say what most of those programs did, and the versions were outdated by the time I saw the video, so now I'd need to know which *versions* are compatible, as well: an escalating nightmare of foundations to be researched before I can get anything running at all.
(2) I'm low on time.
If I can help you out in a way that doesn't involve my spending too much time at it, I'd be happy to do so. If your idea is better than mine, I'd even help program your idea for you. What language are you using? I was planning on using VPython, but I'm open to other language suggestions. Every language has drawbacks: Python is usually interpreted so will not be easily portable as a single EXE file, Java is a security risk and has no decent graphical interface that's standard, and I know C++ but I don't believe it has a standard graphical interface and I hate it across the board for many reasons.
Does anybody else have recommendations about which language would be best to run on a PC/laptop with MS Windows? I need a good graphical interface that is easy to program, can manipulate imported photographs, and can produce graphical simulations, much preferably using the object-oriented paradigm. I also don't know much about creating interfaces between programs, such as whether Python can or should handle that, and if not, what would be a good substitute. I've read that one problem with expert systems and maybe neural network programs is that users typically have their own data and data formats that they need to give to the program in their own way, and that users often want to use commercial software as one piece of a chain, but often the producers of such software often require data to be inputted or outputted in their own way, especially manually. For example, a person might want a neural network to calculate the amount of a match with a given category of object, and then to feed that number into another program running at the same time, automatically, without having to type in all that data to get the neural network to run, then to manually type the output into another program. I don't want to produce annoying software like that, which wouldn't be useful to a lot of people.
I'd also be very interested in what types of problems people would want to see solved using claimed AGI software. Chatbots are pretty much out, since they require too much knowledge to be convincing. Block stacking programs, IQ test problems, the piano mover's problem, and chess won't be of much interest to most people, though those would be great theoretical demos. Maybe puzzle solvers, like sudoku or jigsaw puzzles or chess puzzles? I've read that a new technology doesn't become accepted unless it is significantly better than its preceding technology, so a good, general application would be important for the goal of making money and/or getting the technology widely used.
