* OT: AI (was IA)
2004-12-28 10:20 IA Street Chaman
@ 2004-12-28 15:15 ` Richard Cooper
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From: Richard Cooper @ 2004-12-28 15:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-assembly
> I'm trying to write an IA;
Intel Architecture?
Internet Advertisement?
Iowa?
> Since the way to seems to be hard,
Oh, Artificial Intelligence...
> I'm looking for interested Linux assembly programmers.
Well I'm certainly interested.
However, to my understanding, some of the brightest minds in the world
have been working on this problem since the invention of the computer, and
they have yet to come up with much of anything that amounts to more than a
clever toy. So I'm not sure how we could do much more than research.
Plus there's 100 billion neurons in the human brain, and that's 50 times
as many bits of RAM that I have in my system, so I'm not sure my computer
is up to the task of simulating a catatonic intelligence, let alone a
healthy one. Plus I only have a 1 GHz processor, and that comes to about
0.01 clock cycles per neuron.
Well, maybe you have figured out a way to do it more efficiently than
nature, and can squeeze something on par with human intelligence into the
limited computing power of a desktop computer.
By the way, did you know that the human brain runs on only 20 watts of
power?*
Anyway, what are we going to do if it turns out our artificial
intelligence wants to kill itself half the time and the rest of the time
it finds everything to be incredibly irritating and can't manage it's
money? What are we going to do if it hears aliens talking to it, aliens
which can read it's thoughts? What if it simply can't stop washing it's
hands? I suppose the project would be a success if any of that happened,
but it certainly wouldn't be any fun to debug, and I wouldn't feel right
just pulling the plug on the poor thing.
Perhaps we could simulate the intelligence of a dust mite or something...
But then, I don't think dust mites are all that intelligent, though they
can walk around and get themselves upright when they fall, and they can
find food to eat, and find mates and perform the necessary tasks to
reproduce, which is much more than any current attempts at artificial
intelligence have been able to accomplish. Except maybe that zoomba
vacuum cleaner robot, it can find dirt. Well, actually, I think it just
runs around randomly until it runs into some. Hmm...
Well, anyway, good luck to you.
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* Some web sites are saying as much as 100 watts, but at 2000 Calories a
day, the human body has only 97 watts total. Assuming the brain uses 20%
of that, it gets 19 watts of power. So where I live it costs $1.09 a
month to run a human brain on electricity, or $5.59 for the whole body.
It makes food seem so expensive.
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