On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Martin Striz wrote:
--- Brad Wyble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hardware advancements are necessary, but I think you guys spend alot of time chasing white elephants. AGI's are not going to magically appear just because hardware gets fast enough to run them, a myth that is strongly implied by some of the singularity sites I've read.
Really? Someone may just artificially evolve them (it happened once already on wetware), and evolution in silico could move 10, nay 20, orders of magnitude faster.
No never. Evolution in silico will never move faster than real matter interacting.
But yes it's true, there are stupidly insane emounts of CPU power that would give us AI instantly (although it would be so alien to us that we'd have no idea how to communicate with it). However nothing that we'll get in the next 100 century will be so vast. You'd need a computer many times the size of the earth to generate AI through evolution in a reasonable time frame.
Martin Striz
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