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If a simulated brain would be even remotely comparable to a human brain in terms of computation it would be immediately the smartest thing on the planet simply
by dogma1138 5y ago
If a simulated brain would be even remotely comparable to a human brain in terms of computation it would be immediately the smartest thing on the planet simply by virtue of having immediate or near immediate access to all recorded knowledge.
But we might not need to simulate anything..
In the end it’s quite possible that AGI would end up being brains in vats with some machine brain interface for IO.
I literally might be more cost effective to do it this way.
And this is what people that dismiss AGI often miss. They assume the advancement would only come from one place and that programming would be the only way to solve the problem.
Analogue computers are making a comeback in many areas, and an analogue computer for an AGI might just be a bunch of brain tissue rather than some neuromorphic chips or some other nonsense.
If we get to a point in which we can clone meat for food and organs for transplant making a brain isn’t out of the realm of possibility if we can get BMIs working then a lot of the problems might be solved by just leveraging existing solutions already.
- DSingularity 5y agoWhy do you spell analog as analogue?
- shric 5y agoBecause they prefer the British spelling, presumably?
- dogma1138 5y agoI live in the UK, iPhone is set to UK English.
- DSingularity 5y agoOh! I didn’t even know there was another spelling. Now I feel dumb for asking such a googleable question.
- hooloovoo_zoo 5y agoNon-simulated brains already have immediate access to all recorded knowledge and few are the smartest things on the planet.
- heckerhut 5y agoTrue. Now imagine those brains are not attached to people but to high bandwidth io. Ie Futurama.
- dogma1138 5y agoThose brains have to do a lot of other things and our input bandwidth is limited and overall our i/o isn’t particularly efficient. We’ve already have had limited success in transferring memories - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-019-0389-0 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-019-0389-0 and general purpose brain to machine interfaces are being actively worked on.
- hooloovoo_zoo 5y agoHumans already have trouble processing new stimuli well though; if we're simulating a human-level brain I don't necessarily think we can use any more bandwidth than we'd get from e.g. watching a video.
- dogma1138 5y agoYou assume the I/O would be the same… if you can transplant memories like they did with mice you bypass the relatively slow I/O of sensory data.
- hooloovoo_zoo 5y agoThat's true I am, and I could be wrong.