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An average cell contains an estimated 100 trillion atoms. I’m guessing to “just” simulate elegans’ 302 neurons at the atomic not to speak of quantum precision,
by yourapostasy 4y ago
An average cell contains an estimated 100 trillion atoms. I’m guessing to “just” simulate elegans’ 302 neurons at the atomic not to speak of quantum precision, is not within our compute capabilities yet. Until then, we’ll have to content ourselves with rather crude approximations of simulations. I’m not entirely convinced on a gut feel level that the current GPT (multimodal or not) AI will necessarily lead to AGI when we don’t even know how the biological equivalent works to the molecular chemistry level. Though I really hope I’m blind to a possibility and we hit the friendly Culture Minds-like AGI jackpot without having to first understand the biophysical mechanics of our own biological sapience.
- flangola7 4y agoI think it's likely we will figure out how to make intelligence in silicon before we figure out how it works in brain matter. Just as there's more than one way of generating electricity there may be many ways of generating thought.
- Someone 4y agoI would guess that, if we ever manage to make intelligence in silicon, we will know how every detail works, but not why the entire thing is intelligent.