--- Richard Loosemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You must > demonstrate some reason why the collective net of dumb computers will be > intelligent: it is not enough to simply assert that they will, or > might, become intelligent.
The intelligence comes from an infrastructure that routes messages to the right experts. I know it is hard to imagine because distributed search engines haven't been built yet, but it is similar to the way that Google makes people appear smarter. In my thesis I investigated whether distributed search scales to large networks, and it does. http://cs.fit.edu/~mmahoney/thesis.html -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- 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=89907317-b55af7
