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 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=16962