Structure of AI (was: Re: [extropy-chat] COMP: Distributed Computing)

[Samantha Atkins]

On Nov 20, 2004, at 2:09 PM, J. Andrew Rogers wrote:
> Or to put it another way, there is no theoretical reason that one 
> could not create a human-level intelligence on an old 486 computer.  
> The speed of the computer is orthogonal to the problem space, and only 
> weakly relevant as a practical matter.
>
>

Go ahead then.  If by human-level intelligence you mean remotely 
equivalent in terms of cognitive operations per unit time then I would 
be very surprised if any such thing could be acheived on such an 
architecture.   I don't see that the grater switching speed vs lack of 
significant parallelism is in favor of such.

- s