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Re:The singularity is close? by causality0 on Thursday March 31, 2022 @10:39PM (#30874655)
AGI as a concept is almost certainly possible. However, it may not be that useful. That is to say, barring a true revolution in computational physics, it may not be possible to run human-equivalent AGI on a computer that's less than several orders of magnitude more massive than a human brain. Biology is unspeakably space-efficient. The brain of a dragonfly uses just sixteen neurons to take input from thousands of ommatidia, track prey in 3D space, and plot an intercept vector. Figure out a minimum artificial computer performance to do the same thing, then scale your requirement by the ratio of human brain to dragonfly brain. The numbers are not encouraging.
Re:The singularity is close? by AlphaCenturion on Friday April 01, 2022 @12:10AM (#30875092)
Sorry, the dragonfly bit is just wildly inaccurate. You're either being intentionally misleading or regurgitating something you heard once and never bothered to confirm yourself.

There are millions of neurons in a dragonfly's brain.

Re:The singularity is close? by belugacat on Friday April 01, 2022 @12:43AM (#30875270)
Re:The singularity is close? by causality0 on Friday April 01, 2022 @08:00AM (#30877286)
Yes, and it uses sixteen if them for the specific task I mentioned. Pay attention.