On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 3:44 AM, Matt Mahoney <[email protected]> wrote: > I really don't think we will reach > any hard limits before human level AI.
Sure. Similarly, progress in air travel was supposed to have given us suborbital passenger flight by now; space travel was supposed to have given us solar power satellites, orbital manufacturing, colonies on Mars, manned missions to the outer planets and projects to build interstellar probes; medicine was supposed to have given us cures for cancer long ago; the Pentium 4 was supposed to go past ten gigahertz. All of these things were backed up by arguments just as plausible as the ones you have put forward. The reality is that we only find out about limits after we hit them. > Biology has already found a > solution. But we can't duplicate that solution. Nobody knows whether we will be able to do so in the future. Even if we could, for all we know the difficulty of programming it could end up being such as to make the technology commercially nonviable; software difficulties have sunk promising hardware architectures far less intractable than that before. ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
