PECOS-9 comments on Why AI may not foom - Less Wrong

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Comment author: PECOS-9 24 March 2013 09:18:51PM *  3 points [-]

Sure, but if we assume we manage to have a human-level AI, how powerful should we expect it to be if we speed that up by a factor of 10, 100, or more?

As powerful as a a team of 10, 100 human slaves, or a little more, but within the same order or magnitude.

I'm not sure if that's a good comparison. Compare the following cases:

A. 1 smart human, given 100 days to solve some problem

B. 100 smart humans, given 1 day to solve some problem.

C. 1,000 smart humans, given 1 day to solve some problem.

A would outperform B on most tasks, and probably even C. Most problems just aren't that parallelizable.

Comment author: V_V 24 March 2013 10:03:32PM 0 points [-]

That's why I wrote "or a little more, but within the same order or magnitude"

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