On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 2:14 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>> The Kolmogorov complexity of AGI could be relatively low -- maybe it >> can be expressed in 1000 lines of lisp. >> > > >> That is not a crazy idea because we know for a fact that in the entire > human genome there are only 3 billion base pairs. There are 4 bases so each > base can represent 2 bits, there are 8 bits per byte so that comes out to > just 750 meg, and that's enough assembly instructions to make not just a > brain and all its wiring but a entire human baby. So the instructions MUST > contain wiring instructions such as "wire a neuron up this way and then and > then repeat that procedure exactly the same way 917 billion times". And > there is a huge amount of redundancy in the human genome, if you used a > file compression program like ZIP on that 750 meg you could easily put the > entire thing on half a CD, not a DVD not a Blu ray just a old fashioned > steam powered vanilla CD. > > > But the baby learns a lot as it grows, > And the AI will also learn as it grows . I'm sure Telmo wasn't foolish enough to suggest that 1000 lines of lisp is all the information a AI would even need to know, but maybe just maybe it might be enough to form a seed than could turn into a mind that could learn and grow without limit. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
