On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 6:50 PM, just camel <[email protected]> wrote: > Could AGI emerge through amazon AWS? > > With the new reduced amazon AWS prices (see > http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ and > http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/) one can get a whooping 2500 EC2 > CUs / 1000 virtual cores / 875gig of ram for 82,5USD per hour (125 "High-CPU > Extra Large" EC2 instances) and if that person triggers the singularity > he/she would probably not even have to pay the bills anyway.
To simulate one human brain sized neural network you need about a million cores. To launch a singularity you need to surpass the intelligence of human civilization using 10 billion human brain sized neural networks. At the current rates (assuming Amazon could sell you that much computing power, which they can't), you would use one year of global GDP in about 5 minutes and you would need to sustain it for decades. -- -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] ------------------------------------------- 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
