> Anyway, I assume that as an AGI researcher, that you don't believe that the > brain is doing anything that can't in principle be done by a computer.
I don't know for sure if the brain is using quantum computing in some cognitively nontrivial way. But my best guess at present is that superhuman level AGI can be achieved using conventional parallel digital computers (even if this is not quite how the brain does it), and that use of quantum computing will yield yet greater improvements... > > Also, "after the singularity" is a logical contradiction. The singularity is > the point where the rate of recursive self improvement goes to infinity. It > is infinitely far into the future measured in perceptual time or in number of > irreversible bit operations. Time would not exist "afterwards", just like > there are no real numbers after infinity. That is, if the universe were > infinite so that physics even allowed a singularity to happen in the first > place. This is just shallow wordplay and I guess you probably know it. The Technological Singularity is its own term, which has been explicated fairly clearly by many including Kurzweil and Vinge and myself, and which is inspired by but not literally equivalent to the math or physics notions of Singularity. One thing that is frustrating in many of your messages, Matt, is that you interweave intelligent serious responses and thoughts with silly trolling, in such a way that a reader without adequate background couldn't tell the difference. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Ta5ed5d0d0e4de96d-Mf0428fcd4f8dd32e6adcd9f6 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
