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> lets say you have a cellphone sized device that runs on battery power for 24 hours that can support a general intelligence I can accept that it would be hard
by tome 3y ago
> lets say you have a cellphone sized device that runs on battery power for 24 hours that can support a general intelligence
I can accept that it would be hard to turn off. What I find difficult to accept is that it could exist. What makes you think it could?
- pixl97 3y agoYou, a general intelligence operate on around 20 watts of power, so we could use that as a base floor. Analog inference is one of the areas being worked on that may massively lower power requirements.
- tome 3y agoOK, sure, in principle, somewhere in the universe, such a thing could arise. Why do you think there's a path to it arising on planet earth within human timescales?
- pixl97 3y agoBecause humans keep pouring massive amounts of money into making this happen. When you invest dedicated effort in making something happen you greatly increase the probability that it happens. And in this case it is a reinforcing feedback loop. Better technology begots better technology. Intelligence begots more intelligence. Evolution has to take a random walk to get where it is, it doesn't necessarily have a goal past continuation, intelligence shortcuts that. It can apply massively iterative efforts towards a goal.
- tome 3y agoYeah, but they can't make it happen if it's impossible. If humans poured massive amounts of money into a perpetual motion machine I wouldn't expect it to happen. So what is it that makes you believe that artificial general intelligence is possible to get to at all?
- SanderNL 3y agoWe are also hypermobile generally flexible robots that can run on the occasional pizza. That doesn’t mean we are anywhere near that level of performance.