AWS is a great tool, as are other cloud computing tools .. But "AGI emerging through AWS" is an odd way to put it.... AGI will be explicitly designed and implemented by some team of researchers, who may well use AWS as one of their implementation tools...
-- Ben G On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 7:50 AM, just camel <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/212726-deec6279 > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com -- Ben Goertzel, PhD http://goertzel.org "My humanity is a constant self-overcoming" -- Friedrich Nietzsche ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
