On 08/29/2008 01:29 PM, William Pearson wrote:
2008/8/29 j.k.<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
An AGI with an intelligence the equivalent of a 99.9999-percentile human
might be creatable, recognizable and testable by a human (or group of
humans) of comparable intelligence. That same AGI at some later point in
time, doing nothing differently except running 31 million times faster, will
accomplish one genius-year of work every second.
Will it? It might be starved for lack of interaction with the world
and other intelligences, and so be a lot less productive than
something working at normal speeds.
Yes, you're right. It doesn't follow that its productivity will
necessarily scale linearly, but the larger point I was trying to make
was that it would be much faster and that being much faster would
represent an improvement that improves its ability to make future
improvements.
The numbers are unimportant, but I'd argue that even if there were just
one such human-level AGI running 1 million times normal speed and even
if it did require regular interaction just like most humans do, that it
would still be hugely productive and would represent a phase-shift in
intelligence in terms of what it accomplishes. Solving one difficult
problem is probably not highly parallelizable in general (many are not
at all parallelizable), but solving tens of thousands of such problems
across many domains over the course of a year or so probably is. The
human-level AGI running a million times faster could simultaneously
interact with tens of thousands of scientists at their pace, so there is
no reason to believe it need be starved for interaction to the point
that its productivity would be limited to near human levels of
productivity.
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