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Sci-fi author Vernor Vinge, creator of the tech singularity concept, has died at age 79.
(arstechnica.com)
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The thing is the human brain is very small and very efficient and has some limits on what it is made from being biological in nature.
As the human brain exists we know it is possible to make. So if we make something as equally as functional then whatever we make we just make a new version 10 times as big.
The problem is making that first artifical brain, but when we make that I don't see how we couldn't have an explosion in intelligence.
How exactly are we supposed to replicate the human brain, when we barely understand it?
We wasn't able to understand fire and we replicated that.
Moreover, just because we don't completely understand it now doesn't mean we never will.
Which is why neural network computer science needs psychologists and sociologists to regulate it.
It's only a matter of time before corps start trying to simulate human brains, but even the smaller models deserve at least the same level of consideration that we give to animals.