X-Message-Number: 16962
From: "Bryan Hall" <>
Subject: Mind on a Chip
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 16:22:26 -0700

The movie "A.I. Artificial Intelligence" gets it wrong, according to Bart
Kosko, author of Heaven in a Chip. Instead, it will be far easier to make us
more like computers than to make computers more like us.

See full article at:

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000056448jul09.story?coll=
la%2Dnews%2Dcomment

Some of the commentary's main points include:

* Chips in 2020 or so will have the raw processing power of the human brain
and will forever exceed it after that.

* Brains are wet and have random wiring. They need sugar, oxygen and sleep.
They risk stroke and need a special cooling system for their thick
skull-based housing.

* Brains have no backup. They forget old things as they learn new things. So
memory steadily decays.

* Chip minds will have a bit-based omnipotence because they could create
entire virtual worlds simply by imagining them.

* Chip time will be millions or even billions of times faster.

-Bryan Hall

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