Re:What intelligent machines need to incorporate from the ne...
by jacquesm on Friday June 02, 2017 @06:29PM
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> At this point, processing power rather than theoretical understanding is the limiting factor.
No. And you can clearly show this by reasoning like this: if what you say is true then we would be able to simulate a human cognition system but simply slower than real time.
The fact that we can't even begin to do that no matter at what speed we would like to set this in motion proves that there is no such thing as sufficient theoretical understanding.
To state that even stronger: we are nowhere near close to such understanding. We have roughly the kind of knowledge that you'd be able to glean by taking a hacksaw to a computer, figuring out that there is such a thing as a non-linear element and that you could use this for computation and maybe a basic digital circuit or two.
Immensely useful, but not the level of understanding that we would like to have.
No. And you can clearly show this by reasoning like this: if what you say is true then we would be able to simulate a human cognition system but simply slower than real time.
The fact that we can't even begin to do that no matter at what speed we would like to set this in motion proves that there is no such thing as sufficient theoretical understanding.
To state that even stronger: we are nowhere near close to such understanding. We have roughly the kind of knowledge that you'd be able to glean by taking a hacksaw to a computer, figuring out that there is such a thing as a non-linear element and that you could use this for computation and maybe a basic digital circuit or two.
Immensely useful, but not the level of understanding that we would like to have.