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Eugen Leitl wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">It currently takes a Blue Gene to (poorly) model a very crude model
of a cortical column. Not exactly in realtime.
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Ack! :-) You continue to flatly misunderstand. Blue Gene does not
simulate the functionality of a cortical column, because that
functionality is not known at the present time. It tries to simulate
the functionality at around the neuron/synapse level.<br>
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<pre wrap="">an AGI could very well be built using something within an order of
magnitude of a current PC.
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Can I see a realtime model of your cortical column on a PC?
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No! But only because it is proprietary. And I think this request was
based on the same misunderstanding I just explained, so if you saw the
model you would not know it for what it was. You seem to think that
you would get from me a model at the neural level. That is not the
case, because I am modeling (what I believe to be) the functionality.
Big difference.<br>
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<pre wrap="">I don't think anyone pays sufficient atention to this little issue.
Does anyone reading this post truly realize that the implication is that
if cortical columns are the relevant functional level, and if someone
figured out what the functionality is, that means someone could build an
AGI that would fit in (probably) a single server rack, and do so by the
end of the year...?
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You will not fit a human hardware equivalent in a rack by end of
this year. Or in ten years.
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What is the point arguing? You are not getting the point I am trying
to make, no matter how hard I try.<br>
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Richard Loosemore<br>
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