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Huh... I hadn't considered it before, but Bender's brain could actually be a 6502, just being run at an insanely high clock speed. A few petahertz should be abl
by russellbeattie 7y ago
Huh... I hadn't considered it before, but Bender's brain could actually be a 6502, just being run at an insanely high clock speed. A few petahertz should be able to handle the AI involved, no?
Planck time is like 10^-43 seconds, so there's lots of room to divvy up a second for more processing power given advanced technologies...
- gregoryl 7y agoIf the hardware is advanced enough to do that, the AI software is similarly advanced, and a basic 6502 can produce a Bender like AI without breaking a sweat!
- hvidgaard 7y agoMore advanced software would with all likelihood require significant calculations, rendering a basic 6502 useless.
- russellbeattie 7y agoYeah... Maybe we'd need to bump up the clock to exahertz to make up for the loss of precision and constant memory access. The top super computer is already at 148 petaflops, so we'd need some more headroom for general AI. Of course, petaherz (10^15 cycles per second) is already the speed at which an electron circles around a hydrogen atom, so we may not be able to use electricity any more...