On 26/06/2015 14:01, Dean Pomerleau wrote:
The reason I think this interesting and relevant is that many high profile people (e.g. singularity economist Robin Hanson) see WBE as the most likely path to AGI because on the surface it seems like all that is required is straightforward engineering - all we need is better scanning methods (e.g. extending vitrification techniques already apparently quite good for mice to work for human-sized brains), straightforward extension of current neural modeling techniques (e.g. refinement to Hodgkin-Huxley model of neurons) and more powerful computers on which to run the emulations.
I never bought into this. Areoplanes aren't scanned birds. The motor car wasn't a scanned horse and cart. Submarines aren't scanned fish. Computers aren't scanned brains. We do have instances of scanning - e.g. photos, videos and audio. However only rarely do complex machines get scanned. Proponents mention video game emulation as an example. However that's quite a bit different - there, everything has already been digitized. I figure that brain scanning (like bird scanning and fish scanning) will come late to the party and have pretty negligible economic impact. Brain scanning appears to me to be driven by hope. That is not necessarily a good forecasting methodology. -- __________ |im |yler http://timtyler.org/ [email protected] Remove lock to reply. ------------------------------------------- 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
