Re: No Biological Singularity

From: James Higgins (jameshiggins@earthlink.net)
Date: Thu Apr 12 2001 - 23:31:21 MDT


At 10:56 PM 4/12/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Brian Phillips wrote:
> > Eli any thoughts?
>
>No AI would ever be interested in running on human biology except as an
>inscrutable philosophical statement, just as a human might theoretically
>translate verself into a gigantic simulated Babbage machine, but would be
>rather silly in doing so. This is all fairly basic stuff, BTW.

True, no AI would ever be interested in running on human biology. However,
I wouldn't rule out other biologic constructs for hosting an AI, some of
which may even offer advantages.



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