From: Eugen Leitl (eugen@leitl.org)
Date: Wed Apr 10 2002 - 02:34:37 MDT
On 9 Apr 2002, Mike Linksvayer wrote:
> Apart from its relevance to the potential for an [ab]useful
> distributed AI, I think the roles speed and intelligence play in terms
> of getting "intelligent work" done is an interesting question. An
> uploaded rat running at many times the speed of a physical rat
> presumably won't get any more intelligent work done. How much work
> could a IQ300-equivalent AI that runs at 1/1000 human speed get done?
> Perhaps not much, but it might be extremely interesting work.
I've missed where the 1:1000 time base was coming from. It is a completely
off-the-wall number, especially if not linked to a specific technology,
and specific stage of development.
There's a considerable gap between what even current hardware can do in
principle, and what we are able to do with it with current methods. This
gap is unlikely to become any narrower, so there's definitely a
phase-change scenario involved here. A lot of early-stage embarassingly
parallel tasks are about finding out how to utilize those dormant
resources. And the network bandwidth becomes an increasingly less
important issue as the node size goes up.
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