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kithpendragon comments on Could a digital intelligence be bad at math? - Less Wrong Discussion

3 Post author: leplen 20 January 2016 02:38AM

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Comment author: kithpendragon 20 January 2016 02:10:06PM 2 points [-]

I honestly assumed that most AI would probably have hardware access to a math co-processor of some kind. After all, humans are pretty awesome at arithmetic if you interpret calculator use as an analog to that kind of setup. No need for the mind to even understand what is going on at the hardware level. As long as it understands what the output represents, it can just depend on the module provided to it.