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Old 03-13-2018, 10:07 PM   #10
Anthony
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Berkeley, CA
Default Re: No AI/No Supercomputers: Complexity Limits?

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Originally Posted by VonKatzen View Post
The problem with AI is that intelligence is physical architecture, not software (at least that's the view of Searl, and one that I agree with).
Searl is notable for the utter nonsense that comes out every time he talks about computers. There's really only two possibilities:
  1. The brain is a hypercomputer. In that case we can't run an AI on a conventional computer, but presumably we can build hypercomputational hardware and then run AI software on it. Note that, as far as anyone can tell, no system based on ordinary matter can possibly be a hypercomputer.
  2. The brain is not a hypercomputer. In that case, we can emulate it with software, though doing so efficiently may require special purpose hardware.
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