Could AGI emerge through amazon AWS?
With the new reduced amazon AWS prices (see
http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ and
http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/) one can get a whooping 2500
EC2 CUs / 1000 virtual cores / 875gig of ram for 82,5USD per hour (125
"High-CPU Extra Large" EC2 instances) and if that person triggers the
singularity he/she would probably not even have to pay the bills anyway.
Of course those instances lack the floating point capabilities of a
Nvidia Tesla/Kepler setup certain programmatically approaches to AGI
would require (for processing optical input, etc.) but the processing
power and memory should be enough for many highly parallel projects.
Everyone with the right idea and 80$ on their hands could probably
trigger the singularity? Or think about multiplying those numbers by 10?
I have never spawned more than a hand full of instances at once and I
don't really know about the actual physical processing power certain AWS
regions can provide but I guess it is safe to assume that 1000 cores and
875gig of ram would not be a problem? So if you can't get people to
voluntarily provide processing power via BOINC in order for you to save
the world it might now be just a matter of spending a few 100 bucks to
get massive amounts of on demand computational resources.
Conclusion: "Every 18 months, the minimum IQ necessary to destroy the
world drops by one point." is probably just the plain truth.
Any thoughts?
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