Re:Depp to Star as a Supercomputer in Christopher Nolan Film...
by mcguire on Wednesday December 12, 2012 @06:22PM
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"We don't have the ability to [...] scale our intelligence horizontally (e.g. by copying it to more hardware), which an entity executing on a computer system could have. That's one of the main points of the argument for singularity."
Count me as skeptical about that. Scaling horizontally means making it a communications problem, which the last 50 years have hinted is a bigger deal than you might think.
Count me as skeptical about that. Scaling horizontally means making it a communications problem, which the last 50 years have hinted is a bigger deal than you might think.