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Re:The Great A.I. Awakening by the8472 on Friday December 16, 2016 @02:20AM (#13191673)
Even if we discarded ethics about eugenics and human genome manipulation the iteration cycles for wetware are still a lot longer than they are for silicon.
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Re:The Great A.I. Awakening by webmaven on Saturday December 17, 2016 @04:05PM (#13202609)
> The intelligence can act on itself more readily

Given the ever greater resources needed to build a new fab, the gap seems to be narrowing.

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