From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Tue Jul 27 1999 - 18:31:09 MDT
paul@i2.to writes:
> How many thousands is the real question. I suspect you're looking at 100's of
> thousands. Sure, once you achieve the proper transistor density, the next
> challenge is actually hooking them up in such a way as to accurately
> emulate the entire spectrum of neurochemical activity! :-)
Talk is cheap. Can you gives us numbers?
> Therefore, my primary position is that the gap between uploading
> and human-level AI is much narrower than is often argued.
Gap in which context? Brute-force uploading (aka neuroemulation)
requires many orders of magnitude more power than straight bred
AI. And the translation procedure to the more compact target encoding
is nonobvious (i.e. I do have hints, but can't be sure it's going to
work).
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