On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 1:02 PM, just camel <[email protected]> wrote: > > "Eagles' eyes are extremely powerful, having up to 3.6 times human acuity for > the martial eagle, which enables them to spot potential prey from a very long > distance." > > Does that mean an eagle needs 4 times as much processing power in order to > extract relevant information? Probably not. Who says an AGI does need to > start with the same visual resolution as humans? What kind of general > knowledge/information can only be obtained from high resolution images? I can > view hundreds of lectures/presentations on 480p and still understand what is > going on in most cases.
I counted bits from the optic nerve, not the retina. Feature areas are small near the fovea and get bigger as you go out. The number of low level features increases with the log of acuity, so it is not that much greater. The same applies when looking at low resolution images. Also, an eagle does not have many of the capabilities that humans do, like recognizing words, identifying faces, or driving a car. But anyway, I'm not asking about eagle-level vision. > The lower bound on resolution and the computational power required in order > to extract relevant information from the environment probably is way below > the one humans feature. AGI does not need to spot predators/prey in the > savannah, it does not need to be able to recognize a cat in front of every > imaginable background and there are bad-sighted and blind people who are as > intelligent as everyone else. It seems HD is only genuinely important in > cosmology, espionage and porn but nor for arriving at AGI? An AGI by definition has all of the capabilities of humans. If it doesn't, then you would still need to hire humans to do work that machines don't know how to do. > So why not let the actual AGI solve the problem of HD visual cognition if it > is not actually a prerequisite? So why not answer my question? How much computation do you need for human level vision? -- -- 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
