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Modern supercomputers are still a factor of 10 off of the brains compute power(~1 Exaflop) but I don't think anyone in the field believes that you suddenly get
by zipzap324 8y ago
Modern supercomputers are still a factor of 10 off of the brains compute power(~1 Exaflop) but I don't think anyone in the field believes that you suddenly get consciousness once you reach a critical mass of compute. It's clearly a software problem.
- melling 8y agoA factor of 10? That's it. It's as good as done within 5-7 years. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/02/racing-match-chinas-growing-computer-power-us-outlines-design-exascale-computer https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/02/racing-match-chinas-...
- ZhuanXia 8y agoEstimates vary over many orders of magnitude: https://aiimpacts.org/brain-performance-in-flops/ https://aiimpacts.org/brain-performance-in-flops/
- zipzap324 8y ago~1 Exaflop leaves room for error.
- ZhuanXia 8y agoI suppose my point is I distrust your certainty. It's quite possible 20 petaflops may be enough. Maybe we will need many exaflops. We don't really know.
- tim333 8y agoMoravec's estimate which seems quite well reasoned puts it much lower, about 100 terraflops which you can now get in a GPU https://www.scan.co.uk/products/pny-nvidia-tesla-v100-16-gb-cowos-hbm2-with-ecc-pci-e-30-x16 https://www.scan.co.uk/products/pny-nvidia-tesla-v100-16-gb-... It's true they have not suddenly become conscious.