Re: Conscious of the parts

From: Heartland (velvethum@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Aug 30 2006 - 15:08:57 MDT


> "Tennessee Leeuwenburg" <tennessee@tennessee.id.au>
>
>> How intelligent does an intelligence need to be before a singularity is
>> implied?
>
> Well, the fastest signals in the brain move at about 100 meters a second;
> the signals in a AI would move at about 300,000,000 meters a second. I think
> a factor of 3,000,000 should do the trick, especially when the components of
> the AI are considerably smaller than those in the meat computer.
>
> John K Clark

Weak superintelligence does not imply Singularity. Only strong superintelligence
does.

http://www.transhumanism.org/index.php/WTA/faq21/60/

S.



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