Re: TECH: 1 TFLOP computing for home gaming...

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Aug 07 2002 - 00:25:00 MDT


Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
> Though I'm not sure it makes me happy (due to potential
> for colonizations for PVNs and subversion by amoral AIs)
> it looks like we will have ~1 TFLOP game consoles by 2005.
>
> See:
> Playstation 3 chip nears completion
> http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,,t275,00.html
>
> or Slashdot discussion:
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/06/1433253?mode=thread?tid=137

The SF possibilities of AI starting out in the Internet-connected
Playstation Grid are so blindingly obvious... surely this has been done
before?

-- 
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence


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