On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 09:01:42AM -0400, Brad Wyble wrote: > I think you're a few orders of magnitude off, but I made basically the
Not by much. A few liters of buckytronics is Avogadro country, roughly. > same point here: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg01509.html > > But we're getting off track, my point at the start of this was that simple > theories allow efficient communication, and therefore are essential for AI is both. The evolution laws governing your bit assembly might be simple, very simple in fact (but the space of them still much too large to be brute-forced). But the initial seed complexity is not that, and the human-equivalent AI target is anything by that -- as a wild guess it's somewhere in the ~TBit range, possibly more. Knowledge about the world is anything but compact, because the world is full of information. > rapid progress in an effort like this, in which people are trying to > design or understand something that is holistic. i.e. something that You can't understand an AI any more than you can understand a human person. You can tweak evolutionary and morphogenetic parameters, though, and see which impact they have on the end result. > cannot be decomposed into mathematically discrete chunks the way > that the physical sciences often can. Engineering massively emergent systems is not something we're familiar with. But it doesn't mean it can't be done. You know the fitness function, let the system design itself. > AI and cognitive science both fall squarely into that category. Molecular neuroscience allows you map molecular events in their impact on structure and function. We're at the beginning here, but there are a lot simple parameters there (as well as terribly complex ones) for tweaking. While this hasn't been done, inflating the neocortex should result in a smarter critter. And that's a trivial parameter. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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