Lux, Jim (337C) wrote: > I think it will be a while before a machine has the wide span of capabilities > of a human (particularly in terms of the ability to manipulate the > surroundings), and, as someone pointed out the energy consumption is quite > different (as is the underlying computational rate... lots of fairly slow > neurons with lots of parallelism vs relatively few really fast transistors) > Doesn't this then raise the question of why we aren't modeling computers and programming models after the brain? ;)
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