alt Hacker NewsWouldn't it be ironic if, after all this, it was discovered that the most economical way of producing some fundamental 'unit of intelligence' was to feed/clothe/entertain a human?
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noosphr • yesterday at 8:33 AM
You can always put the brain in a jar: https://corticallabs.com/cl1.html
twowaway • yesterday at 8:29 AM
Isn't that the premise of The Matrix?
Bar "clothing", I guess.
achierius • yesterday at 12:13 AM
It would be. But that's not going to happen.
imtringued • yesterday at 10:37 AM
No, that is just equilibrium economics.
Machines are cheaper than humans? Buy more machines.
Humans are cheaper than machines? Hire more humans.
This is the very core of my issue with "AI". From a resource usage point of view, it cannot hope to compete with a developer armed with a banana.