On Tue, Apr 2, 2024, 7:18 PM '[email protected]' via Everything List < [email protected]> wrote:
> Opinion on what occurs when we load, not an LLM, but a LLM + a Neural Net > on a low-error, high entanglement, quantum computer. Will this create a > mind? > If you're not careful, you could create 2^N minds. Where N is the number of qubits. Jason > On Saturday, March 30, 2024 at 08:31:25 AM EDT, John Clark < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 10:28 PM Russell Standish <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > * >"There is a big difference between the way transistors are wired in > a CPU and the way neurons are wired up in a brain."* > > > Yes, but modern chips made by companies like NVIDIA, Cerebras and Groq > don't make CPUs or even GPUs, they make Tensor Processing Units, or in > Groq's case Language Processing Units, chips that have been optimized to do > best not in floating point operations but in large neural networks that all > current AI programs are. In the recent press conference where Nvidia > introduced their new 208 billion transistor Blackwell B200 tensor chip, > they pointed out that when used for neural nets, AIs chips have increased > their performance by a factor of 1 million over the last 10 years. That's > far faster than Moore's Law, and that was possible because Moore's Law is > about transistor density, but they were talking about AI workloads, and > doing well at AI is what NVIDIA's chips are specialized to do. I also found > it interesting that their new Blackwell chip, when used for AI, needed 25 > times less energy than the current AI chip champion, NVIDIA's Hopper chip, > which the company introduced just 2 years ago. And I do not think it's a > coincidence that this huge increase in hardware capability coincided with > the current explosion in AI improvement. > > > > *> "In the future, I would expect we'd have dedicate neural processing > units, based on memristors"* > > > If memristor technology ever becomes practical that would speed things up > even more, but it's not necessary to achieve superhuman performance in an > AI in the very near future. > > > > > *"**The comparing synapses with ANN parameters is only relevant for > the statement "we can simulate a human brain sized ANN by X date"."* > > > I don't see how comparing the two things can produce anything useful > because one is concerned with software and the other is concerned with > hardware. Comparing transistors to synapses may not be perfect but it's a > much better analogy than comparing program parameters with brain synapses, > at least transistors and synapses are both hardware. Comparing hardware > with software will only produce a muddle. > > > > > *"**he [Kurzweil] said human intelligence parity (which I supose could > be taken to be avergae intelligence, or an IQ of 100) [...]* > > > > *AI passes 100 IQ for first time, with release of Claude-3 > <https://secretive-tarsal-fe8.notion.site/AIs-ranked-by-IQ-AI-passes-100-IQ-for-first-time-with-release-of-Claude-3-f67219c7ccb44e4da1707d54ef1df8f1> > * > > > John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis > <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> > lnm > > > > -- > 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/CAJPayv0TftwZ7N09tmzP5DDsyfRcmcL40Au1-4mzTG8anvTDpA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv0TftwZ7N09tmzP5DDsyfRcmcL40Au1-4mzTG8anvTDpA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- > 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/1070662887.2783537.1712099933698%40mail.yahoo.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/1070662887.2783537.1712099933698%40mail.yahoo.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CA%2BBCJUg0Aq%3D6HaAPEBD8OLS-D-d57325BEob2jj5OaOHBd6YeQ%40mail.gmail.com.
