On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 3:02 AM, just camel <[email protected]> wrote: > Books, agriculture and language were all invented/discovered when Earth's > population was nowhere near the 10 billion mark.
Including people who have died, there have been 100 billion humans. But perhaps you can tell me what you think AGI will cost, in hardware, software, knowledge, and dollars, and tell me how you estimated those numbers. If you think that AGI just needs some smart person hacking on their laptop for a few months, maybe you can explain why nobody has been smart enough to figure it out in spite of the $70 trillion per year they could save by automating human labor worldwide. If you think that human intelligence doesn't require petaflops and petabytes, maybe you can explain why human level intelligence never evolved in insect sized brains. If you think that it can be done with a few thousand lines of code, then explain why humans need so much DNA. Why haven't we evolved in just a few thousand generations from the origin of life with just a few thousand DNA base pairs? If you dismiss the contributions of billions of sustenance level farmers to the works of Shakespeare, then try raising a child from birth with no human contact and see what they accomplish. If I recall, the last time this experiment was done, the babies all died. -- -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] ------------------------------------------- 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
