[ExI] Human Brain Project kicks off today

Rafal Smigrodzki rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com
Wed Oct 9 04:57:26 UTC 2013


On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:

> Bootstrap stages are sacrificial/discardable, just as in compiler bootstrap.

### Ah, I am getting it now: Initial uploading/human-level AI stages
are general purpose hardware with very bloaty software, with gigantic
inefficiencies but then with enough specific knowledge you can build
specialized hardware running highly optimized code. Makes sense.

How many Eugens could you fit in the head of a pin (make it a sphere
3/16 inch diameter)?

Rafal



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