On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Ben Goertzel wrote:
Brad wrote:I know you are all probably getting sick of me talking about how all of this is complicated, but it really is. Hearing that inflating the cortex is a "trivial parameter" grates on me terribly.
Brad, I agree with you re human brains, but of course there is a big difference between engineered AI systems and human brains in this regard.
Agreed, that whole email was concerning his comments about augmenting human brains, and was a bit off track for this list. My apologies.
We can engineer our AI systems specifically so that adding more processor and memory WILL simply increase their intelligence, without a lot of complications and hassles.... Novamente is designed this way.
You are correct about physical/architechtural hassles, but I'm not so sure about mental hassles. I can imagine functional complications that result from having too much unstructured room to play in. As a simple analogy, I recall that Principal Component Analysis can fail to give you useful results if you allow it to use too many dimensions.
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