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by tim333 345 days ago
There's a difference between current AI which is not a revolution and future AI which does have the potential for something like the industrial revolution.
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Except that future AI has been predicted for a long time now. Are we really much closer to AGI than we were 10 years ago?
I'm kind of a believer in Kurzweil / Moore's law stuff that you can predict when it'll turn up by extrapolating hardware progress. That has always had the human level date around 2030.
That assumes you can estimate the hardware requirements needed for the creation of AGI.
Yeah. You can estimate roughly what you need for something functionally equivalent to a brain. It comes out around 100 TFLOPS give or take a couple of zeros so we kind of have that now which gives people five years to sort the algorithms if it's going to be 2030.