2008/8/15 Ed Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The training issue is a real one, but presumably over time electronics that > would be part of these wetware/hardware combination brains could be > developed to train the wetware/hardware machines --- under the control > guidance of external systems at the factory --- relatively rapidly, so that > in say one year the brains know as much as a bright teenager. Since all > this training could take place in parallel, it would not be that great of an > overall cost. > > I personally would prefer all electronic brains where you could have much > more of an ability to examine virtually any part of the system. But it is > possible that it will be quite a while before we can develop electronics as > cheap and as power efficient as neurons. (Of course it is also possible that > electronic advances will happen so fast that there is no real reason for > using wetware.)
I doubt that breeding rats and then training their brains under controlled conditions for a whole year is going to be a cheap exercise. You need appropriate facilities and equipment, food, probably expert technicians to remove neural tissue overseen by ethical committees and all the other accompanying beaurocracy. Compared to a pure machine solution biological or partially biological (cyborgian) systems are going to be expensive and time consuming to produce. A years worth of training can be transmitted between machines without loss of information in very small amounts of time. ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=111637683-c8fa51 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
