On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 5:31 PM Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I think it will turn out that making an AI as intelligent as a human >> will be much easier than most people think. I say that because we already >> know there is an upper limit on how complex a learning algorithm would need >> to be to make that happen, and it's pretty small. 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 an entire human baby. So the instructions MUST >> contain wiring instructions such as "*wire a neuron up this way and then >> repeat that procedure exactly the same way 917 billion times*". And >> there is a HUGE amount of redundancy in the human genome, so if you used a >> file compression program like ZIP on that 750 meg you could easily put the >> entire thing on a CD, not a DVD not a Blu ray just a old fashioned steam >> powered vanilla CD, and you'd still have plenty of room leftover. And the >> thing I'm talking about, the seed learning algorithm for intelligence, must >> be vastly smaller than that, and that's the thing that let Einstein go from >> knowing precisely nothing in 1879 to becoming the first person in the world >> to understand General Relativity in 1915. > > *> But he didn't "know precisely nothing in 1879". He was provided with > information from a few hundred million years of evolution.* It doesn't matter how long it took Evolution to produce it, you just can't get around the fact that it takes less, way way less, than 750 megabytes of information to make a brain capable of learning how matter tells space-time how to curve and how space-time tells matter how to move. It's not surprising that it took Evolution such a long time because it's a horribly inefficient process, but until it finally managed to make a brain it was the only way complex objects could get built. What random mutation and natural selection can do an intelligent designer, that is to say a software engineer, can do better and much much faster. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> 6ty > > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv2n2pwvHrB_qgenDUwSV%2ByFhMb_sDGVCEf5Tdp4bsaQiw%40mail.gmail.com.
