I know this topic is already beaten to death in previous discussions, but I'll throw out one more point after reading that we may already have the equivalent power of some 3000 minds in raw CPU available worldwide.
The aggregate neural mass of the world's population of insects and animals are probably at least an order of magnitude greater than that of humanity(and this using processing units literally identical to our own, no uncomfortable assumptions of computational equivalence are involved). And yet they aren't the ones building spaceships. Putting processing power to good, effective use is a *hard* problem. Also, integrating the power of multiple units is another hard problem. I don't recall the figure, but the vast majority of the brain is interconnective tissue. Networking hardware scales nonlinearly with the number of processing units. Even if you had sole dominion of those millions of desktop units and the perfect AGI software to run on them, the bandwidth bottleneck would make the thing unusable. -Brad ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED]
