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Re:A Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to... by closedloop129 on Sunday June 12, 2022 @02:56AM (#31712199)
> I used nuclear reactions just as a fill in to say it should be possible to simulate matter with close enough approximation to facilitate thought.

If we can use Quantum Computers to hugely accelerate some calculations, then you can't use regular computers to accurately simulate nuclear reactions in a reasonable time frame.

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Re:A Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to... by swid on Sunday June 12, 2022 @11:01AM (#31714995)
Reasonable time frame is not a requirement of the argument I was trying to make. I’m saying that there is nothing inherently missing from a silicon based computer or Turing complete language to support human level intelligence.
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