rcadey comments on Superintelligence Reading Group - Section 1: Past Developments and Present Capabilities - Less Wrong

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Comment author: rcadey 21 September 2014 08:19:55PM 1 point [-]

"How much smarter than a human could a thing be?" - almost infinitely if it consumed all of the known universe

"How about the same question, but using no more energy than a human?" -again the same answer - assuming we assume intelligence to be computable, then no energy is required (http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/rd/176/ibmrd1706G.pdf) if we use reversible computing. Once we have an AI that is smarter than a human then it would soon design something that is smarter but more efficient (energy wise)?

Comment author: leplen 22 September 2014 05:25:33PM 3 points [-]

This link appears not to work, and it should be noted that "zero-energy" computing is at this point predominantly a thought experiment. A "zero-energy" computer would have to operate in the adiabatic limit, which is the technical term for "infinitely slowly."

Comment author: KatjaGrace 22 September 2014 03:36:25AM 1 point [-]

Anders Sandberg has some thoughts on physical limits to computation which might be relevant, but I admit I haven't read them yet: http://www.jetpress.org/volume5/Brains2.pdf