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Re:Mammals dream about the world they are about to experienc... by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Monday July 26, 2021 @10:43PM (#27968046)
Depends on the size of the network I would guess. A Boltzmann brain would apparently take about 10^10^50 years to form from quantum fluctuation in a vacuum. Our hypothetical neural network would be less complicated than that, assuming we're not aiming for general AI, so I think we can safely take that as an upper bound...
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Re:Mammals dream about the world they are about to experienc... by CaptainNegative on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @01:35AM (#27968983)
With a uniform initialization, presumably you'd never need much more than 2^(network bit complexity) number of samples to come across an ideally-initialized network with decent probability, so that's 2^10^24 for anything that fits in a yottabyte.
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Re:Mammals dream about the world they are about to experienc... by freemint on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @03:16AM (#27969540)
In the absence of dynamics and uniform random mutation, yes. But Both don't hold in the universe.
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