On 6 Jan 2003, James Rogers wrote: > I recently put together a human brain equivalent model that takes into > consideration several aspects of system performance to figure out what > kind of system configuration we would need to generate a human > equivalent structure (which I expect would actually be much smarter than > a human in practice). For the purposes of real-world projections, > taking MIPS and GB in the abstract is nigh useless because there are a > slew of caveats as to how all these components actually perform in real > systems.
Right, I presented my data as a response to an earlier post (no data) speculating on the rate of computer processing progress. > In short, the CPU is almost where we need it to be now, but the memory > is still way behind the curve. By the time memory catches up so that we > can have human equivalent intelligence, we'll have enough extra CPU that > we'll have human level intelligence that runs much faster than a normal > human. Which is to say the curve will be more on the "fast and stupid" > side of the curve than the "slow but smart" side of the curve if > balanced for existing architectures. Although Cyc is well accommodated by the present balance between CPU, memory and bandwidth offered by a typical white-box server, Cyc will have to be augmented substantially by commonsense intelligent behaviors before it can become an AGI - we hope. Meanwhile Cyc deductive inference performance scales in almost direct proportion to CPU clock speed so I believe that the current x86 integer CPU core and memory subsystem designs suit our approach to AGI. It also appears that 64-bit architecture will soon become mainstream just as we bump up against the Linux process maximum memory ceiling. -Steve -- =========================================================== Stephen L. Reed phone: 512.342.4036 Cycorp, Suite 100 fax: 512.342.4040 3721 Executive Center Drive email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Austin, TX 78731 web: http://www.cyc.com download OpenCyc at http://www.opencyc.org =========================================================== ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED]
