Ben and Tim, Standing in between these two views, the apparent ad hoc organization of our brains doesn't seem to well lend itself to "programming", and there is ALWAYS a better algorithm.
OTOH our brains have been honing their skills for ~150 million years, which certainly says that all of the low hanging fruit has been picked. As I have been calling for on other threads, I am looking for potentially viable approaches, albeit they unproven, have visible flaws, etc., as a sort of existence proof that there ARE potentially better ways than ad hoc organization. So far, we have no such proof. Steve ================== On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Tim Tyler <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/04/2013 12:06, Matt Mahoney wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I mean addressing the computational requirements for a human level > vision integrated with language and robotics. How do you plan to bring > this below the petaflop range? > > By using more efficient algorithms than the human brain does ... > > How do you know that such algorithms exist? How do you calculate the > complexity? > > > It's a fair bet. Evolution gave us the blind spot, back pain, an eating > tube and breathing tube that > intersect and the blessed coronary arteries. It probably screwed up the > brain as well. The silly > thing looks like a telegraph system in a city where everybody is directly > wired to their friends > with crappy old analog connections. > -- > __________ > |im |yler http://timtyler.org/ [email protected] Remove lock to reply. > > *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/10443978-6f4c28ac> | > Modify<https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;>Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com> > -- Full employment can be had with the stoke of a pen. Simply institute a six hour workday. That will easily create enough new jobs to bring back full employment. ------------------------------------------- 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
