On Dec 7, 2007 10:21 AM, Bob Mottram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I had 100 of the highest specification PCs on my desktop today (and > it would be a big desk!) linked via a high speed network this wouldn't > help me all that much. Provided that I had the right knowledge I > think I could produce a proof of concept type AGI on a single PC > today, even if it ran like a tortoise. It's the knowledge which is > mainly lacking I think.
I agree that at the moment hardware is NOT the bottleneck. This is why, while we've instrumented the Novamente system to be straightforwardly extensible to a distributed implementation, we haven't done much actual distributed processing implementation yet. We have build commercial systems incorporating the NCE in simple distributed architectures, but haven't gone the distributed-AGI direction yet in practice -- because, as you say, it seems likely that the key AGI problems can be worked out on a single machine, and you can then scale up afterwards. -- 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/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=73609156-15fdf3
