jacob_cannell comments on MIRI's Approach - Less Wrong

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Comment author: jacob_cannell 31 July 2015 04:10:49AM 1 point [-]

When doing probabilistic calculations, you can either use very, very precise representations of computable real numbers to represent the probabilities, or you can use various lower-precision but natively stochastic representations, whose distribution over computation outcomes is the distribution being inferred.

Of course - and using say a flop to implement a low precision synaptic op is inefficient by six orders of magnitude or so - but this just strengthens my point. Neuromorphic brain-like AGI thus has huge potential performance improvement to look forward to, even without Moore's Law.

Comment author: [deleted] 31 July 2015 04:17:23AM 1 point [-]

Neuromorphic brain-like AGI thus has huge potential performance improvement to look forward to, even without Moore's Law.

Yes, if you could but dissolve your concept of "brain-like"/"neuromorphic" into actual principles about what calculations different neural nets embody.