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I feel like this is pretty non sequitur. He seems to imply that above some magic number of transistors intelligence will simply manifest itself. Intelligence is
by KeithMajhor 15y ago
I feel like this is pretty non sequitur. He seems to imply that above some magic number of transistors intelligence will simply manifest itself. Intelligence is more than just computational power.
- hugh3 15y agoIndeed. I can believe that (maybe) sometime within the next few decades we'll have hardware theoretically capable of running a simulation of a human-level intelligence. I don't see any indication that we'll have the relevant software, nor any particularly good idea of how to write it.
- wladimir 15y agoHe might be right, though. Intelligence might arise as an emergent property of some complex system. For example, automated trading. There's no telling really. It also depends on how you define intelligence. It doesn't necessarily have to be (explicitly simulated) human intelligence. (Mind that intelligence in humans wasn't created on demand either. It arose as an emergent property of the mammalian brain, due to evolutionary pressures)