It would take a pretty big box, to contain the cloud, yeah... And we would also be residents of that box, so its only point would be to perhaps save potential extraterrestrials from our AGI creations 8-D ...
On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 7:46 PM, John Rose via AGI <[email protected]> wrote: > OK, look at the trend though. Cloud. If AGI lives in the cloud it is > effectively a mobile agent as long as the cloud it lives in doesn't tie it > down to the hardware or the cloud specific software. Or if you build it on > premise it needn't be tied to the hardware. > > It's effectively a mobile agent that moves across clusters of computers > verses a mobile agent on a computer that moves across computers. BUT > companies want proprietary AGI so they will tightly couple it to their > systems so there is an advantage IMO to designing a mobile AGI. Conveniently > just having it abstracted to run on a particular OS using readily available > software libraries solves much of this. Though cloud companies do offer > proprietary communication busses and other interlinks that are very powerful > and are easy to get hooked on... > > John > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Logan Streondj via AGI [mailto:[email protected]] >> Subject: Re: [agi] AGI box experiment ;D >> >> >> domestic dogs, cats, rabbits, all live longer than computers. >> half life of flash drive 4 years, cpu 7 years, disk drive 6 years, cd-rom > ~20-30 >> years in best of conditions. >> >> In reality an AGI would need spare parts like we need protein, lubricants, >> sealants, for heat-flow and waterproofing like we need nutrients, and >> electricity like we need carbohydrates. >> >> I've read lots of sci-fi authors write about them like they will be > immortal or >> something, living hundreds of years in desolate places. >> In truth any such AGI would need a whole technological eco-system just to >> stay up and functioning. >> >> Sure there are benefits, like sensors and backups, but I think a lot of >> promoters skip the difficulties, which is what makes AGI more relateable, >> more human. >> > > > > > ------------------------------------------- > 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 "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw ------------------------------------------- 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
