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Old 03-13-2018, 10:28 AM   #7
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Default Re: No AI/No Supercomputers: Complexity Limits?

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Originally Posted by malloyd View Post
Nothing particularly prevents you from building computers the size of planets.
With advanced enough engineering, true enough.

But currently super computers are facing a set of large problems with interconnectivity and thus do not reach their theoretical capabilities and the more you scale them up the more drastic the problem becomes. So we need to get those problems solved before we can build much larger computers than we do today.
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