Interesting - apparently he is also about to publish a book titled "How
to build a brain" ... just when i finished Ben's "The Hidden Pattern"
and "How to create a Mind"
http://nengo.ca/build-a-brain
On 12/02/2012 04:15 PM, Alan Grimes wrote:
'ello.
I'm going to have to issue a singularity alert for a package called
Spaun.
It is a very user friendly neural network application developed by :
http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/~celiasmi/ (click link called "Nengo")
At first glance, he's just another GOERTZEL, but in fact, he seems to
be able to think clearly and has software that Actually Does
Something(tm).
Just what that is isn't clear yet. The demo videos on his website are
breathtaking but they don't mean anything. I tried running the full
Spaun brain model on my $2,000 home computer but immediately ran out
of memory. (I chose 8-gb of extremely low latency memory over 16 gb of
slower memory.)
I would like someone with a machine with 24-32gb (or more RAM) and a
working Nvidia CUDA installation to try out the package and see if it
does what is claimed and what it's limitations are.
My impression is that there is a better than 10% chance that this
could be an operational seed AI... If humanity survives the
singularity, I would propose a 20 foot tall solid gold statue of this
Eliasmith character be erected in every human settlement throughout
the galaxy... He's probably the most generous sentient being ever to
have lived.
Seriously, though, if this package is shown to be meritorious, then we
are, right now, living in the final few weeks before some kind of
takeoff scenario (not clear what kind yet). Therefore if you have
money and you give a shit about this stuff, throw a lab together so
you might stand a chance to ride this rocket.
I want a NAO and a GPU supercomputer. If I sell all my gold, I should
be able to get the NAO but I can't afford the GPUs.
Just coming onto the market now is the Nvidia Tesla K20X co-processor
board which could enable as much as 16 teraflops of single-precision
compute in a single node (assuming you could find a way to supply
enough electricity for the thing).
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