From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Sun Apr 07 2002 - 11:24:35 MDT
On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Alfio Puglisi wrote:
> On the contrary, even with a good human model in hand, you
> would be hard-pressed to find the hardware to run it.
Not really. That was the precise point of my posts on Kazaa DC effort.
You could buy access to sufficient processing capacity ~1 petaflop
by buying a controlling share of the company (currently ~$3 million).
It would most likely be a slower-than real time simulation due to
the fact that many of those computers are probably on dial-ups.
But as soon as the balance shifts in favor of DSL, cable, optic
(company or university), or even 3-4G wireless (wouldn't it be
ironic if the AI emerged from our handhelds and cellphones...)
you are going to have the bandwidth to ratchet up the simulation
clock rate.
I suspect that means that all the AI (or AI's creator) has to do
is hack the Kazaa protocol for downloading new versions of itself
(I assume this is built in though I haven't checked) and all
bets are off. I don't know how many computers are still infected
with Code Red/Nimda taking the machines via that route is a
second option. Writing some nifty piece of cool software and
giving it away for free on Tucows is a third.
It is going to become necessary to only install software which
has been vetted by a "reliable" (presumably 3rd party) security
focused organization and only accept licenses where the software
distributor accepts liability for any damage the software might do.
We live in very scary times.
Robert
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