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Re:Artificial Intelligence Still Isn’t All That Smart by bachbach on Monday August 20, 2018 @07:30PM (#17805128)
I thought I'd scribble on the back of the envelope.

Henry Markram, a neuroscience person with a desire to emulate the human brain believes it takes 1 exaflop. It's a start.

Existing supercomputers reach 50 petaflops. 50 billion petaflops is 50 million exaflops.

Is this 50 million brain EM moments?

It's possible it was in the ballpark of a human brain emulation although I strongly suspect a fair comparison isn't easily comprehensible.

> I agree that there are alot of very subtle, but fundamental mistakes and omissions in both the design and combinations of current generation intelligence algorithms that are impeding a viable path toward general intelligence

I think that is true of specialized intelligence, and that zero progress of any sort has been made on AGI. I don't mind being wrong if you know of primitive examples that qualify.

It is unclear how to begin. Maybe rehearsing something like real biological evolution.

> , if all we care about is dramatically increasing the efficiency of solving problems humans care about, this totally isn't a problem, because we apparently don't need general intelligence to do that.

Daniel Dennett makes this point philosophically in a video I watched yesterday. Other people have made the observation that we're already surrounded by AGIs in the form human society based collective intelligences we know well.

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