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by weaponofchoice 5356 days ago
Sifting through the day's top-list on the AI appstore... WTH's this? "Newton AI. The power of a 1000 research assistants at the click of a button, and they'll run all day tirelessly.". "99c launch deal, just for today -- get it now!" Hmm. Click.

You're now waiting for it to download to your little AiPod that'll beam 'brain bits' to your home-bots, that're now busy sketching out the next monalisa onto a couple of shiny new dreamPads.

Why wouldn't those startup dudes down the street try and build a beefier/faster "runs at 50x universe speed" AiPod for the AI platform you just bought your Newton AI app for?

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Why wouldn't AI be able to simulate 'regular universe time/ human time' faster? Why couldn't AI have stronger, more varied randomness?

The bottleneck would be interactions that require a peek into regular universe time: live human input (phone calls, emails), weather, biological data etc.