/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15447695

Because god is dead, but we will create his replacement.

>>15317783
It obviously can simulate 10 or 100 or 10000 human brains.

You must take into account two factors, what fidelity the simulation runs and in what time factor it is simulating them.

If you want a full fidelity simulation of a human brain I doubt it could do even one anywhere near real time. And that is presuming we learn how to run such a simulation. At this point we are fairly confident that the problem is more in the software engineering sphere than a hardware.

You should be aware that the human brain can only hold about seven items in it's short term memory and runs on about 15 watts of power. Modern high end consumer graphics cards consume 450 watts and have 24 gigabytes of short term memory.

There are serval projects working tirelessly to map the human connectome. We have already mapped the fruit fly connectome and can now understand in detail how the fly's inputs are processed, how it maps the world and makes decisions to guide it's movements. It is feasible that with a full map of the human connectome and enough compute power we could simulate the human mind. Once an adequate simulation is produced many many optimizations can be made and it is entirely possible that a stream of human level consciousness could be simulated on average computer hardware.

Please note that his is enterally different than just making a large language model with all the data in the world and shoving a bunch of layers on it until it gains sentience. I'm not saying that cant work, but the connectome based approach is extremely likely to work. Wouldn't it be great if we had two methods for creating conscious Ai and then experimented with ways to merge them or take the best aspects of each?

It's a beautiful time to be alive.