--- Matt Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Tom McCabe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It's true we can do theoretical work but the > lack of > > > computing power is > > > definitely an obstacle. > > > > What? That's the exact opposite of what I said! > Why is > > computing power an obstacle? We're not even near > the > > stage where you put the program into the computer, > > because there *is no program*! Suppose you had a > > computer with 10^50 FLOPS. What would you run on > this > > computer? > > Protein folding, weather forecasting, cryptanalysis, > predicting chemical > properties from Schrödinger's equations.
None of which has anything whatsoever to do with AI. None of these things are even new algorithms- they're simply the old algorithms with a higher fidelity/size/n/whatever. > Personally, I would experiment with > neural language models that I can't currently > implement because I lack the > computing power. Could you please describe these models? > You can't deny that the availability of computing > power has always shaped the > direction of AI research. What approaches are there > now that don't push the > limits of the hardware? This is because most AI researchers are not trying to design AGI, and so naturally their research grows until it fills the bounds of the computing power we have, instead of being tailored to solve a specific problem. There's nothing really wrong with this; it just isn't going to produce AGI. > > > > -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ----- > This list is sponsored by AGIRI: > http://www.agiri.org/email > To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: > http://v2.listbox.com/member/?&; > ____________________________________________________________________________________Be a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545469 ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=4007604&user_secret=8eb45b07
