On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 02:41:26PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Given Moore's Law and the other rules of thumb regarding the progress of > computer hardware it will be another 25 to 30 years before we match > human capacity. > > Anyone who says they can achieve such in significantly less time is > seeking funding. :-)
Or is using the relatively simple reasoning that brains are full of cruft, overcapacity, and other elements that are not specifically required for sentience, but devoted to the management of a primate's body, and we can do a better job. Emulating a human is very very different from making a sentience. That's the main flaw of the Turing's test: it attempts to prove the existence of human-type sentience, not sentience in general. -- Vincent ARCHER [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel : +33 (0)1 40 07 47 14 Fax : +33 (0)1 40 07 47 27 Deny All - 5, rue Scribe - 75009 Paris - France www.denyall.com _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
