> Also, integrating the power of multiple units is another hard > problem. I don't recall the figure, but the vast majority of the > brain is interconnective tissue. Networking hardware scales > nonlinearly with the number of processing units. Even if you > had sole dominion of those millions of desktop units and the > perfect AGI software to run on them, the bandwidth bottleneck > would make the thing unusable. > > -Brad
This is partly true... The Novamente architecture in particular requires a "central core" that consists either of a supercomputer or a tightly-connected cluster of machines. However, it can also make use of a huge periphery of millions of desktop units, to carry out certain easily-distributable, important, processing-intensive tasks (e.g. pattern analysis and procedure learning based on already-known data). -- Ben ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED]
