On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote: > Faster computers make AI easier. They do not make Friendly AI easier in > the least. Once there's enough computing power around that someone could > create AI if they knew exactly what they were doing, Moore's Law is no > longer your friend.
Yes, I share this view. How much computer power could be harnessed now on the web? Suppose that 30-50 thousand state of the art computers are equivalent to the brain's processing power (using Moravec's assumptions). If global desktop computer system sales are in the neighborhood of 130 million units, then we have the computer processing equivalent of 2,600 human brains should they all somehow be linked together. Moore's law (not really a law but a management guidance principle at Intel) projects that this latter number doubles say every 16 months. United Devices and others will evolve grid computing towards a true distributed computing model, which will aggregate unused desktop computing power worldwide... -Steve -- =========================================================== Stephen L. Reed phone: 512.342.4036 Cycorp, Suite 100 fax: 512.342.4040 3721 Executive Center Drive email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Austin, TX 78731 web: http://www.cyc.com download OpenCyc at http://www.opencyc.org =========================================================== ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED]
