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-2 Post author: jpaulson 16 January 2014 01:37AM

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Comment author: jpaulson 17 January 2014 07:52:37AM 0 points [-]

1) I expect to see AI with human-level thought but 100x as slow as you or I first. Moore's law will probably run out sooner than we get AI, and these days Moore's law is giving us more cores, not faster ones.

Comment author: Gurkenglas 17 January 2014 11:29:47AM 1 point [-]

If we indeed find no algorithm that runs drastically faster than the brain, Moore's law shifting to more cores won't be a problem because the brain is inherently parallelizable.

Comment author: lavalamp 17 January 2014 06:52:54PM 0 points [-]

I think we just mean different things by "human level"-- I wouldn't consider "human level" thought running at 1/5th the speed of a human or slower to actually be "human level". You wouldn't really be able to have a conversation with such a thing.

And as Gurkenglas points out, the human brain is massively parallel-- more cores instead of faster cores is actually desirable for this problem.