On 11/12/2007, Matt Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://lifeboat.com/ex/ai.shield
That's quite amusing. Safeguarding humanity against dancing robots. I don't believe that technology is something you can run away from, in a space lifeboat or any other sort of refuge. You just have to try to get along with it and perhaps shape its course if you can. > SIAI has not yet solved the friendliness problem. I've always had problems with the concept of "friendliness" spoken about by folks from SIAI. It seems like a very ill-defined concept. What does "friendly to humanity" really mean? It seems to mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people (observer relative). > A human brain sized neural network requires about 10^15 bits of memory and > 10^16 operations per second. Direct comparisons between computing speed and brain activity I also find problematic. People often quote numbers like this without having any idea how they were arrived at. As far as I can discern all roads lead back to Moravec, who based his figures upon the retina observing a TV screen, and admitted that this was a very wobbly estimate potentially subject to a wide margin of error. I think until the "essential function" of a neuron is known it's really hard to make direct comparisons between what computers do and what brains do. ----- 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/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=74974493-d340fd
