What is the CPU processing needed for AGI? Dan Goe ---------------------------------------------------- >From : Ben Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To : [email protected] Subject : Re: [agi] Processing speed for core intelligence in human brain Date : Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:14:57 -0400 > Hi, > > > On a related subject, I argued in What is Thought? that the hard > > problem was not processor speed for running the AI, but coding the > > software, > > This is definitely true. > > However, processor speed for research is often a significant issue. > With faster processors, it would be quicker to run tests verifying or > refuting various hypotheses about various AI algorithms. Lacking a > rigorous science of AI algorithms and structures, the computational > resources needed to create an AGI may exceed significantly those > required to run an AGI. > > For instance, your Hayek algorithms runs rather slowly, and > experimentation with variations on Hayek would certainly be more fun > if processors were a few orders of magnitude faster ;-) > > > and estimated that evolution had gone through very roughly > > 10^35 viruses since the dawn of time, as very rough estimate of raw power > > available to it for software discovery. > > Dan Fischer did a similar physicist's estimate, coming up with 10^35 bacteria. > > However, Warren has recently done some digging > > on the subject, and come up with what seems to be a better estimate > > that 10^44 bacteria have lived on Earth. > > However, evolution is not doing software design using anywhere near > the same process that we human scientists are. So I don't think these > sorts of calculations are very directly relevant... > > -- Ben > > ------- > To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, > please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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