<div class="gmail_quote">On 23 December 2011 08:54, Anders Sandberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anders@aleph.se">anders@aleph.se</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
If the brain really uses weird computation, like microtubule quantum states, then we need to wait for the right hardware. That might take a long time, especially if it needs to be dedicated to brain emulation - a fairly niche interest.<br clear="all">
</blockquote></div><br>Why not making use of neurons for those allegedly "exotic", hard-to-emulate-on-silicon kinds of computations? We know they work. Squeeze in a cheap, easily available human brain in your "artificial" intelligence and you are game.<br>
<br>The issue remains of the bandwith available to this organic coprocessor to communicate with the rest of the system. But as I maintain in my essay on the subject, as long as computing power becomes less and less of an issue, you can easily deal with the problem by making communication happen at a higher and higher level. See the difference in information exchanges between driving a traditional car to a destination, and having a fully automatic one to carry you to a given address.<br>
<br>This is why I ultimately think that some aspects of the debate on AGIs sound a little like those on the sex of the angels... Emulation of anthropomorphic "intelligence" has little to do IMHO with what opportunities and dangers are involved in the availability of computational power, and for whom - the latter, I suspect, essentially for those who do not have it.<br>
<br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>