This discussion has an interesting historical parallel. Early computers like the IBM-602 calculating punch and the Boroughs E-101 accounting machine were electromechanical. I’ve been doing this stuff long enough to have my early hands-on experience on three different types of electromechanical computers. There was a hot debate within IBM whether it was even theoretically possible to compute without any moving parts. Now nearly a century later this seems silly, but back then this was SERIOUS as some groups were trying to invest millions of dollars into something that other more conservative people thought was a stupid pipe dream.
Colin now carries the same burden as the “needs moving parts” people - of explaining why algorithms simulating fields can’t work, when everyone, even including Colin, agrees that no such convincing explanation is possible. Interesting. Steve Richfield On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 2:32 AM <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday, December 23, 2020, at 10:43 PM, Matt Mahoney wrote: > > Colin, you haven't answered my question. I don't understand how electrical > noise from neurons magically makes intelligence possible. > > That's what I'm wondering too. I can't remember if he said once he is > simply designing a real chip to make his code run faster, but there's so > much fluff on this thread it really makes you wonder if the chip is what is > meant to bring alive some magno-electro-psi-quanti-powers. > *Artificial General Intelligence List <https://agi.topicbox.com/latest>* > / AGI / see discussions <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi> + > participants <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/members> + delivery > options <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription> Permalink > <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Tf319c0e4c79c9397-Mf5b1838ae5a52b084c05996d> > -- Full employment can be had with the stoke of a pen. Simply institute a six hour workday. That will easily create enough new jobs to bring back full employment. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Tf319c0e4c79c9397-M37c8880ead3c369b2a5252df Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
