Steve,
you are not alone. How big can one go with an FPGA that is currently available? 1K? 10K? 10K would already be nearing some practical applications with EI, but 100K would be better. I am thinking EI because I am sure that, if EI can be demonstrated for example in image recognition, then it would attract attention immediately, including the chip makers. "General computation" is too vague. Or, better, I propose to start "general computation" with EI, then one could expand. Also, personally I believe this would be "hyper-Turing" but I would be very careful with that term because there is too mych hype about it. Ben has strong reasons why it is better not to use the term for now. I am very happy that such things can be calculated, and there is plenty of time to find out if they are hyper or not. Do you do these things? Do you build analogs from components? I don't have any money, but just saying. Sergio From: Steve Richfield [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 2:48 PM To: AGI Subject: Re: [agi] Analog Computation Sergio, On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Sergio Pissanetzky <[email protected]> wrote: how do you do millions with analogs? The technology is well known and would be fairly easy to build, but the chips aren't (yet) available because there is no market (yet) for them!!! This is obviously a chicken-or-egg problem. Basically, you would build it just like an FPGA, where the interconnections are made with programmed transmission gates. However, instead of switching logic gates, you would be switching integrators and other analog building blocks. Note that people have already done this, but switched "artificial neuron synapses" instead of more general purpose analog building blocks. Such a device attached to a PC as an outboard processor could enable really general purpose hyper-Turing computation at pretty much full unhindered speeds. I see the promise here, but so far I seem to stand alone in this. Steve AGI | <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/18883996-f0d58d57> | <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; ad2> Modify Your Subscription <http://www.listbox.com> ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-c97d2393 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-2484a968 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
