Here's the worst case scenario I see for ai: that there has to be hardware complexity to the extent that generally nobody is going to be able to get the initial push. Indeed, there's Moore's law to take account of, but the economics might just prevent us from accumulating enough nodes, enough connections, and so on.
So, worst case, maybe some gazillionair will have to purchase/make his own semiconductor manufacturing facility and have it completely devoted to building additional microprocessors to add to a giant cluster, supercomputer, or computation cloud, whatever you want to call it. A first step on the way to such a setup might be purchasing supercomputer time and trying to wire up a few different supers, then trying to see if even a percentage of the computational power predicted yields results remotely ressembling ai. Over time, ai will improve and so the semiconductor facility can recover costs by hosting a very large digital work force, but this is "all or nothing" and so what arguments might there be to persuade a gazillionair into doing this? - Bryan ----- 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=73878310-b41ab6
