Re: Hardware Progress

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Jun 25 2001 - 12:47:06 MDT


For those of you who were not with us in April, you can find some extended discussion of
this subject in the archives:

http://sysopmind.com/archive-sl4/0104/

This includes the various estimates, an interesting thread pointing out that *bandwidth*
rather than CPU speed or memory is often the limiting factor on modern motherboards, and
my own attempted estimate of the amount of software in the human brain.

Keywords: "Memory bandwidth", "Human-level CPU power crossover date", and "Human-level
software crossover date".

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



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