Re: [agi] Vector processing and AGI

2008-12-12 Thread Ben Goertzel
Hi, There isn't much that an MIMD machine can do better than a similar-sized SIMD machine. Hey, that's just not true. There are loads of math theorems disproving this assertion... Oops, I left out the presumed adjective real-world. Of course there are countless diophantine equations

Re: [agi] Vector processing and AGI

2008-12-12 Thread Steve Richfield
Ben, On 12/12/08, Ben Goertzel b...@goertzel.org wrote: There isn't much that an MIMD machine can do better than a similar-sized SIMD machine. Hey, that's just not true. There are loads of math theorems disproving this assertion... Oops, I left out the presumed adjective

Re: [agi] Vector processing and AGI

2008-12-12 Thread Steve Richfield
Andi and Ben, On 12/12/08, wann...@ababian.com wann...@ababian.com wrote: I don't remember what references there were earlier in this thread, but I just saw a link on reddit to some guys in Israel using a GPU to greatly accelerate a Bayesian net. That's certainly an AI application:

[agi] Vector processing and AGI

2008-12-11 Thread Ben Goertzel
Steve wrote: Bit#3: Did Ben realize that the prospective emergence of array processors (e.g. as I have been promoting) would obsolete much of his present work, because its structure isn't vectorizable, so he is in effect betting on continued stagnation in processor architecture, and may in

Re: [agi] Vector processing and AGI

2008-12-11 Thread Steve Richfield
Ben, Before I comment on your reply, note that my former posting was about my PERCEPTION rather than the REALITY of your understanding, with the difference being taken up in the answer being less than 1.00 bit of information. Anyway, that said, on with a VERY interesting (to me) subject. On

Re: [agi] Vector processing and AGI

2008-12-11 Thread Ben Goertzel
Hi, There isn't much that an MIMD machine can do better than a similar-sized SIMD machine. Hey, that's just not true. There are loads of math theorems disproving this assertion... OO and generic design patterns do buy you *something* ... OO is often impossible to vectorize. The point

Re: [agi] Vector processing and AGI

2008-12-11 Thread Steve Richfield
Ben, On 12/11/08, Ben Goertzel b...@goertzel.org wrote: There isn't much that an MIMD machine can do better than a similar-sized SIMD machine. Hey, that's just not true. There are loads of math theorems disproving this assertion... Oops, I left out the presumed adjective real-world. Of