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Re:The Myth of a Superhuman AI by YetAnotherNick on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @03:36PM (#28305910)
There is no reason we know that brain emulation is not possible. Even if one second takes 100 years in processing now, there is no reason to think that there is fundamental limit in how many processor you could connect. And for superhuman it just needs to do one thing well(which computers already does) than human and match humans in everything. I am not saying it would be done but I haven't seen any argument on why this exact argument is "impossible".
Re:The Myth of a Superhuman AI by qsort on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @03:56PM (#28306141)
It's not impossible in principle, but:

- we don't understand enough about the brain to emulate it.

- we don't know how to model the brain.

- even assuming we had the required scientific knowledge, there would likely be major engineering problems.

So, in other words, it's not impossible in the same sense FTL travel is not impossible, our scientific understanding does not categorically exclude it, but making predictions as to when it will happen is kind of silly, because it will likely require several fundamentally unpredictable scientific breakthroughs.

Re:The Myth of a Superhuman AI by blamestross on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @08:06PM (#28308851)
> there is no reason to think that there is fundamental limit in how many processor you could connect

Square-cube law. As the number of processors grow how do you hook them together? If you want to minimize latency you end up with a solid packed sphere. O(cube root) latency. In that situation, heat dissipation only scales with the surface area of that sphere. So there is a limit to the scale. If you choose a topology that permits cooling, then you accept ever increasing inter-processor latency which eventually bottlenecks your computation.

Computers are not magic. They exist in a physical reality and have to deal with thermodynamics and the speed of light. Just because we feel like we have a lot of them doesn't mean we have enough for "magical super AI" to work.

Re:The Myth of a Superhuman AI by goatlover on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @04:18PM (#28306388)
As the article points out, the nervous systems is larger than the brain. There are millions of neurons in your gut. Your sensory organs have neurons that prepare the signal sent to the brain from the sensory noise. No brain lives independent of a body. That's not how organisms evolved.
Re:The Myth of a Superhuman AI by otabdeveloper4 on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @03:53PM (#28306120)
> There is no reason we know that brain emulation is not possible.

Well, neither is there any reason we know that it's possible.

You're just demonstrating your apriori biases ("the brain is just a computer"), nothing more.

Re:The Myth of a Superhuman AI by YetAnotherNick on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @07:32PM (#28308555)
We have reason to believe it's possible because we know we can simulate a single neuron. It's just the sheer complexity of full brain we can't scan and efficiently simulate.
Re:The Myth of a Superhuman AI by otabdeveloper4 on Thursday August 26, 2021 @05:07AM (#28312400)
There's absolutely no reason to believe that the brain can be reduced to a collection of neurons. It's what we want to believe, because it's simpler and makes us feel in control; but in real nature there's intelligence without neurons, and the brain needs much more than neurons to do its thing.

P.S. If we presume that human intelligence is a random processes, then there's no reason to think that this random process can create another that has more information complexity than the original. It makes no sense mathematically.