On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 06:41:39PM -0400, Benjamin Goertzel wrote: > A key point is that, unlike a human, a well-architected AGI should be > able to easily increase its intelligence via adding memory, adding > faster processors, adding more processors, and so forth. As well as
I see why a human wouldn't profit from enhancements, it's just most of them would require germline manipulation, or technology quite beyond of what is available today. > by analyzing its own processes and their flaws with far more accuracy > than any near-term brain scan... Of course a point could be made that reconstructing function from structure (which in principle can be obtained from vitrified brain sections at arbitrary resolution) is less far off than AI bootstrap. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE ----- 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/?member_id=231415&user_secret=fabd7936
