On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 08:21:45PM -0700, Tom McCabe wrote: > Hmmm, this is true. However, if these techniques were > powerful enough to design new, useful AI algorithms, > why is writing algorithms almost universally done by > programmers instead of supercomputers, despite the > fact that programmers only work twelve hours a day and > have to get paid?
A supercomputer has a price tag of several M$ and has a yearly burn rate in the same ballpark. These days, you can hire many experts for that budget. Secondly, if #1 at TOP 500 is about a realtime mouse equivalent (no, I don't want to hear any "but they're doing it wrong" blahblah), how much would you pay a rodent? Thirdly, there are bootstrap issues. You need to spend a lot of brute-force evolution, until you evolve enough to be able to evolve. Fourthly, if you can't think of a thing to do with a lot of computational resources for AI, don't assume the rest of us can't. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 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/?member_id=4007604&user_secret=8eb45b07
