Here is the URL of a Kurzweil-linked NYTimes article about Microsoft's commitment to writing code for many-core processors and how they will enable standard PC's and handhelds to do AI tasks such as vision, speech rec, and semantic content understanding.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/17/technology/17chip.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pa gewanted=print Advances in many-core processing is a positive for the development of AGI, although I believe AGI will be much easier to parallelize than most traditional programming. Ed Porter ----- 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=77175829-5b3acd
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