Xref: utzoo comp.ai:2724 talk.philosophy.misc:1638 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!cornell!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!cadre!geb From: geb@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU (Gordon E. Banks) Newsgroups: comp.ai,talk.philosophy.misc Subject: Re: Artificial Intelligence and Brain Cancer Message-ID: <1823@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> Date: 28 Nov 88 22:21:12 GMT References: <506@soleil.UUCP> Reply-To: geb@cadre.dsl.pittsburgh.edu (Gordon E. Banks) Organization: Decision Systems Lab., Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA. Lines: 13 In article <506@soleil.UUCP> peru@soleil.UUCP (Dave Peru) writes: > >Can someone give me references to any articles that make "intelligent" guesses >about how much computing power is necessary for creating artificial >intelligence? How many tera-bytes of memory? How many MIPS? Knowing the >recent rates of technological development, how many years before we have >machines powerful enough? > The human brain has about a trillion or so neurons. Higher mammals can get by on considerably less. Worms have just a few. If we are talking about making intelligence out of neural nets (the best idea I know of), it will probably be some decades before we have such beasties.