> From: Alberto Monteiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > The Fool wrote: > > > >FYI all this discussion is not really off topic. The uplift universe has > >machine intelligence's (computer civilizations and just ordinary > >computers). And the book _Earth_ had a lot to do with stuff too. > > > *Every* thing that relates to Brin books is off topic :-P > > > BTW, your process to make an AI create another one *can't* > be simultaneously error-proof and take a finite time to compute. > > For example, if at any point during the AI "reproduction" there > comes a point when it's essential to check, say, the primality > of a number, it's perfectly possible that no time in the Big U > could compute it. Perhaps. But quantum computing is coming (they just factored 15). Solving NP problems in P time is the whole point of quantum computing. If a human mind can solve NP problem in P time, so can computers. But I seriously doubt any such problems would arise in the design process, and even if it did it would find other ways to accomplish said goal. That's the whole point of problem solving, if you can't accomplish it using the best method, then you accomplish it with the second best algorithm, etc.
