4 ms·
I think the hard question is whether those wins can be realized with less effort than what we’re already doing, though. What I mean is this: A brain today is o
by snowwrestler 2y ago
I think the hard question is whether those wins can be realized with less effort than what we’re already doing, though.
What I mean is this: A brain today is obviously far more efficient at intelligence than our current approaches to AI. But a brain is a highly specialized chemical computer that evolved over hundreds of millions of years. That leaves a lot of room for inefficient and implausible strategies to play out! As long as wins are preserved, efficiency can improve this way anyway.
So the question is really, can we short cut that somehow?
It does seem like doing so would require a different approach. But so far all our other approaches to creating intelligence have been beaten by the big simple inefficient one. So it’s hard to see a path from here that doesn’t go that route.
- sockaddr 2y agoAlso, a brain evolved to be a stable compute platform in body that finds itself in many different temperature and energy regimes. And the brain can withstand and recover from some pretty severe damage. So I'd suspect an intelligence that is designed to run in a tighter temp/power envelope with no need for recovery or redundancy could be significantly more efficient than our brain.
- fallingknife 2y agoThe brain only operates in a very narrow temperature range too. 5 degrees C in either direction from 37 and you're in deep trouble.
- choilive 2y agoMost brain damage would not be considered in the realm of what most people would consider "recoverable".
- numba888 2y agoIn some cases it doesn't recover even without physical or chemical damage. Psychiatric clinics are full of this stories.
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]