From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Wed 20 Nov 2002 - 14:57:15 GMT
On 11/20/02 00:17, Grant Callaghan said this-
>The fastest supercomputers in the world are complete slackers compared with
>the processing power of the human brain.
>
>But that's about to change.
"Forty-two? That's all you can come up with after seven and a half
million years' work?"
I think Joe's comment about the body was the most cogent, here.
Implementation.... But I suppose one could make the argument (a la The
Colossus Experiment) that humans will be the 'body' of such a computer,
after all is said and done.
- Wade
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