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> The penultimate premise is if we create an artificial intelligence, whether it's an emulated human brain or a de novo piece of software, it will operate at ti
by ru999gol 8y ago
> The penultimate premise is if we create an artificial intelligence, whether it's an emulated human brain or a de novo piece of software, it will operate at time scales that are characteristic of electronic hardware (microseconds) rather than human brains (hours).
I never understood that argument, why would that be true? If I train a state of the art convnet it takes days on the most efficient hardware I can efford, why on earth would we go from nothing to superintelligent that also runs incredibly fast. Isn't it way more logical to assume that it will be slow at first?
- amelius 8y agoYes, perhaps at first, but it can invent its own optimizations.
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- chobeat 8y agoAnd even if you defy computational constraints, it will still be constrained by physical limitations. You can experience the world just so quickly. Stuff needs time to happen and you being faster than stuff won't be any help after a while.
- red75prime 8y ago> Stuff needs time to happen and you being faster than stuff won't be any help after a while. Yeah, another problem for superintelligence to tackle, while it waits for stuff to happen.
- crunchyfrog 8y agoThe argument as I understand it is more about speed limits. Human thought is limited to the speed at which the underlying chemical reactions in neurons can happen. But a simulation of a neuron is only limited by the speed of the computation involved. If you can perfectly model a neuron at 100x the speed of the physical world, it becomes just a question of resources whether you can think at 100x the speed.