(November 4, 2016 at 5:52 pm)abaris Wrote: Apart from failing to understand why you don't consider energy requirements an important question. We, as a real species, need energy to keep going. It's called food and drink. If you unplug your computer it won't do very much, even if you have the fanciest CPU installed.
Exactly. A huge consideration with super computers is the power they require to run.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercompu...management
Quote:A typical supercomputer consumes large amounts of electrical power, almost all of which is converted into heat, requiring cooling. For example, Tianhe-1A consumes 4.04 megawatts (MW) of electricity.[52] The cost to power and cool the system can be significant, e.g. 4 MW at $0.10/kWh is $400 an hour or about $3.5 million per year.
A quantum computer needs to be cooled to a fraction of a degree above kelvin.
What's an AI going to do stuck in a very large building?
Compare this to a human:
http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2001/Jacq...Ling.shtml
Quote:The average power consumption of a typical adult is 100 Watts and the brain consumes 20% of this making the power of the brain 20 W.
This allows a human to have a body, to walk around and interact with the world and to learn from it. Yet we don't find humans increasing their intelligence at exponential rates, except perhaps certain theist trolls on here who finally understand what we're telling them.
