On Jul 13, 2006, at 10:55 AM, Joshua Fox wrote:
Estimates for the total processing speed of intelligence in the
human brain are often used as crude guides to understanding the
timeline towards human-equivalent intelligence.
I would make the observation that this kind of like estimating how
much processing speed is needed to sort a billion items assuming a
bubble sort. If some of the assumptions turn out to be pathological,
any estimate would be almost meaningless. And in the case of AI,
most of the assumptions are sufficiently arbitrary that there is
probably quite a bit of pathology factored into most estimates.
J. Andrew Rogers
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