On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 07:30:20AM -0500, J. Storrs Hall, PhD. wrote: > In my previous msg that one referred to, I quoted my figures as being from > Kurzweil & Moravec respectively. After I read your 652-page book justifying
Would you take 562 pages as well? http://www.amazon.com/Biophysics-Computation-Information-Computational-Neuroscience/dp/0195181999/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-7341035-9436725?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1173876708&sr=8-1 This one is quite good, too: http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0262681080/ref=s9_asin_image_2/104-7341035-9436725 You might find the authors have a bit more credibility than Moravec, and especially such a notorious luminary like Kurzweil http://www.kurzweiltech.com/aboutray.html I'm not actually just being flippant, the AI crowd has a rather bad case of number creep as far as estimates are concerned. You can assume 10^23 ops/s on 10^17 sites didn't come out of the brown, er, blue. > your estimates, I may quote them as well. > > > Why a workstation? Why not a 10^9 CPU cluster? > > 'Fraid I left my gigacluster in my other pants today. What if you're going to need it? Seriously, with ~20 GByte/s memory bandwidth you won't get a lot of refreshes/s on your few GBytes. > > > optimization. The real brain may hold 10 million concepts but I should... > > > Where did *that* number come from? > > ls /proc/brain/concepts | wc My neocortex firmware is way out of date, mine unfortunately doesn't come with procvfs. Time for a reflash... -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?list_id=303
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