On 6/16/07, Mike Tintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (...)
The obvious alternatives, it seems to me, (but please comment), are either pace the movie 2001, a desk-bound supercomputer like Hal, with perhaps extended sensors all over the place, even around the world - although that supercomputer, I guess, could presumably occupy an ever smaller space as miniaturisation improves.
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Given the ever-distributed nature of processing power, I would suspect that a superAGI would have no physical form, in the sense that it would be distributed across many processing nodes around the world. (And those could be computer clusters, single personal computers, and so on - if you want to stick to physical forms, probably we are talking about zillions of boxes of many sizes and shapes.) And despite being "formless" it would be omnipresent, in the sense that it would be able to access zillions of sensors (and possibly actuators), from street surveillance cameras to radiotelescopes. ----- 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=7d7fb4d8
