On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 9:17 PM, Jim Bromer <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't need to create a program that can: > > 1. do the work that machines aren't smart enough to do. > 2. run a human brain sized neural network in real time. > 3. work with all the bits of input that the senses receive during a lifetime. > 4. work with the information content of human DNA. > 5. run a simulation of all the molecular "computing operations" that it took > to code DNA.
I'm glad that you don't, because the numbers are rather daunting. 1. $70 trillion per year. 2. 2 petaflops, 100 terabytes of memory. 3. 2 exabytes (1 GB per second for 2 billion seconds). 4. 300 million lines of code. 5. 10^48 DNA base copy operations (10^31 copies per second on 10^37 bases for 10^17 seconds = 3 billion years), plus a vastly greater number of RNA base and amino acid assembly operations, powered by 160,000 TW of solar energy (10,000 times global human energy consumption). By contrast, global computing power is 10^20 operations per second and 10^22 bits of storage). > I do, however, need the wished for search algorithm... I suppose that proving P = NP with divine guidance probably has about as much chance of succeeding. -- -- 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
