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From: geb@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU (Gordon E. Banks)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,talk.philosophy.misc
Subject: Re: Artificial Intelligence and Brain Cancer
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Date: 28 Nov 88 22:21:12 GMT
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Organization: Decision Systems Lab., Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA.
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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.