> For instance, in relation to memory capacity. let's say I could live > for the age of the universe, roughly 15 billion years. I believe the > human mind(without enhancement of any kind) is capable of remembering > every detail of every day for that entire lifespan.
That is contrary to actual experience. Many of the elderly complain of difficulty in forming new memories. > I believe it is an error to reduce memory and thought to the > calculations that Kurzweil and Alan put forth. Egad! I'm being compared to Kurzweil the Weenie... =\ The entire point of the entire AGI enterprise is to reduce memory and thought to calculations. > Clearly we have had incredibly fast processors, yet we can't even > create something that can effectively navigate a room, or talk to me, > or reason or completely simulate an ant. All of those are software problems. > How can they reconcile that?? If they say "we don't know how to > program that yet". then I say "well then stop saying that > the singularity is near striclty because of processor speed\memory > projections. Processor speed is irrelevant when you have no idea how > to use them!" Okay, I have some theories... Unfortunately I'm only a theorist so I'll need some code-slaves to make any progress but I think that's doable. The research machine that I tried to build a few months ago (and is still sitting in pieces) will only be a high end PC. It should be enough to make excelant progress even though it only uses 1.2 ghz processors... > It is true that few humans reach this capacity i describe above. I > would call them human singularities. Therer have only been a handful > in history. Then we'll worry about dealing with the mein intelligence first. ;) > But it's important to note that these capabilities are within each of > us. As you said, only savants. I am surely not one of them. > I will go as far to say that any computer system we develop, even one > that realizes all the promises of the singularity, can only match the > capacity of the human Mind. Why? Because the universe is the Mind > itself, and the computational capacity of the universe is rather > immense and cannot be exceeded by something created within its own > domain. This is almost theistic... You should check your endorphine levels. -- pain (n): see Linux. http://users.rcn.com/alangrimes/ ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED]
