On 10/4/07, Edward W. Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The biggest brick wall is the small-hardware mindset that has been > absolutely necessary for decades to get anything actually accomplished on > the hardware of the day. But it has caused people to close their minds to > the vast power of brain level hardware and the computational richness and > complexity it allows, and has caused them, instead, to look for magic > conceptual bullets that would allow them to achieve human-like AI on > hardware that has roughly a millionth the computational, representational, > and interconnect power of the human brain. That's like trying to model New > York City with a town of seven people. This problem has been compounded by > the pressure for academic specialization and the pressure to produce > demonstratable results on the type of hardware most have had access to in > the past.
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