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That is flawed reasoning. Every intelligent organism in the world needs blood, and machines do not. Modern airplanes don't flap their wings either.
by VMG 6y ago
That is flawed reasoning. Every intelligent organism in the world needs blood, and machines do not.
Modern airplanes don't flap their wings either.
- sgillen 6y agoThey don’t need blood but they need energy, planes don’t flap their wings but they need to generate lift. Whatever the function of sleep is, I think artificial minds will likely need it too.
- Smaug123 6y agoWe have a handy analogy in the computing world, in that stop-the-world and concurrent garbage collection algorithms both exist. If sleep is pure garbage-collection, then I don't think there's any strong reason to expect it to be required of all possible mind designs. However, it seems increasingly likely that the empirical question may be answered at some point soon!
- Erlich_Bachman 6y agoBut it shouldn't surprise you if it did require sleep. Now the airplanes don't happen to flap their wings, but you shouldn't have been surprised or in disbelief if they did require it. We are still too far off from AGI to know for sure. Time will tell.