hanson@hss.caltech.edu (Robin Hanson) On Sun, 8 Jun 1997 Wrote:
>If any brand of AI researcher had a computer that good, they'd
>probably think they were very close to the holy grail. But here we
>do have such computers, [monkeys] and we don't put them to much use
>besides studying their brains.
It's difficult and expensive to program a monkey to perform a task, and when
you're finished all you have is one trained monkey. It might be just as
difficult to train a primitive AI to do the task, but when you're finished
you have millions of trained AIs.
John K Clark johnkc@well.com
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