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Comment by HeyLaughingBoy

1 year ago

You don't think we know how to construct an analog computer? We have decades of experience designing analog computers to run fire control systems for large guns.

https://maritime.org/doc/firecontrol/index.php

We have also a pretty decent amount of experience with (pulse/spiking) artificial neural networks in analog hardware, e.g. [1]. Very Energy efficient but yet hard to scale.

[1] https://www.kip.uni-heidelberg.de/Veroeffentlichungen/detail...

  • That’s a very cool abstract, thanks. I suppose it’s the plasticity that poses a pretty serious challenge.

    Anyway, if this kind of computer was so great maybe we should just encourage people to employ the human reproduction system to make more.

    There’s a certain irony of critics of current AI. Yes, these systems lack certain capabilities that humans possess, it’s true! Maybe we should make sure we keep it that way?