Comments by "xybersurfer" (@xybersurfer) on "The Singularity u0026 Friendly AI? - Computerphile" video.

  1. +magicstix0r with other words, you think that the brain's connections can be drawn on a big sheet of paper without overlapping lines (a planar graph). that's quite an assumption. did you read that somewhere?
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  2. poon5000 that's interesting. but it looks like they are using a more loose definition 2d sheet.
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  3. Haniff Din maybe this also depends on whether you think space is fundamentally analog or discrete. what's stopping you from suggesting it's 1d?
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  4. Richard Smith i also don't like theories that play semantic games. i'm undecided about whether digital computers can be sentient like a brain, i'm leaning more toward yes. and it seems like you are too if possibly a few changes are made. to me that sounds more like an optimization issue. it would seem that it is still a turing complete machine. i lean towards making things functionally equivalent. of course we may never know when they are functionally the same, and we might want to leave-out/improve some things
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  5. Haniff Din i also prefer the simplest representation. but i don't think we are talking about whether something is re-presentable as something else. there is a distinction between 2D and 3D before changing their representation. otherwise there would be no need to talk about changing representations at all. this seems like a completely different kind of discussion.
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  6. The Sapien then what is making current computers functionally identical to us, according to you?
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  7. Richard Smith to combine some of your ideas; i don't see a problem with clever programming if it is so clever that it can process the world in the same fundamental ways as humans
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  8. The Sapien i don't know any of course. i thought you had specific changes to current computer hardware in mind (not the software side).
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