On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 2:14 PM, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
