My approach, admittedly unusual, is to assume I have all the processing power and memory I need, up to a generous estimate of what the brain provides (a petawords and 100 petaMACs), and then see if I can come up with operations that do what it does. If not it, would be silly to try and do the same task with a machine one to 100 thousand times smaller.
Yes, this is what we've done with Novamente as well. In fact, I am quite confident the NM architecture when fully implemented and tuned can yield powerful AGI.... The biggest open question in my mind is exactly how much computational resources will be required, to achieve what levels of intelligence. We have tried to make estimates of this but they're all pretty fudgy.... It is clear that the resource requirements won't be insane on the level of AIXI or AIXItl, but in practical terms, a factor of 100 in computational resource requirements makes a big difference... -- Ben ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?list_id=303
