> So give that you don't know how much the human brain does crunch > and how effectively it work, can you quantify "far more effective"? > And give the reationale behind that estimate?
I can't give the full rationale in a brief email and don't have time to write an essay on it right now. But in brief, *if* the Novamente architecture as currently formulated is workable then the hardware req's should be around 500-1000 current PC's networked together. This is based on the idea that we will need to automatically learn "combinator tree" programs in Novamente's internal programming language with roughly 500 nodes in them, via probabilistic evolutionary learning where the fitness evaluation uses Novamente PTL inference on a single machine. And it's based on some loose curve-fitting to guess how much hardware power is needed to learn combinator trees of this size. Of course there is a lot of reasoning here which I am not presenting in this email -- but anyway, yeah, I do have an estimate which is based on detailed reasoning... ben ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
