Re:The future of computing: After Moore's law
by b1449835 on Friday March 11, 2016 @05:12AM
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The point of machines is that they do a single task better than us. A dishwasher is superhuman at washing plates but nothing else. If we model machines to be more like us they will end up with the same disadvantages of a normal human. At that point why not employ real humans in the first place?
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Re:The future of computing: After Moore's law
by noir_lord on Friday March 11, 2016 @11:04AM
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> At that point why not employ real humans in the first place?
Cost mostly, If you can replicate a human-level intelligence for 10,000 (or 100,000) and have it work 24/7 with no time off and scale out to thousands of them then you'd have something absolutely terrifying in it's capability.
Image an AWS of a 1000 von-neumann level intelligences working co-operatively 24/7 on a problem.
The stuff of sci-fi right now but maybe one day, we know it's physically possible to build human level intelligences since we prove that the rest is 'just' engineering.