Introspecting myself, I think there's great scope for an AI made on this model to be able to think arbitrarily more precisely than I do, because I am limited by headspace constraints and this limits the precision of concepts that I can maintain. Precision happens by nesting concepts, and it doesn't follow from the outer concepts being fuzzy that the inner concepts are as fuzzy. I think if you had a mind built on hardware that expanded over time, rather than starting to contract again after twenty years, you might be able to start with this and end up somewhere more precise.
Possibly by modularising? It seems a great constraint that all one's specialist knowledge has to fit inside the same head. If your AI could over time get access to new sub-systems to populate with specialist knowledge it could maintain more attention on an overview. Internalise organisal structure?
* standard human brain, but make it run much faster * standard human brain, but with connection to more traditional "computer" -- instant checking of facts, which ought to make it easier for the AI to spot where its fuzziness is causing problems * make the AI less impatient; the human brain has evolved to take lots of shortcuts and not necessarily bother thinking things through, because for hard real-time tasks like "avoid getting eaten by lion" you can't afford to take the time to do that. You could make the AI more contemplative.
Yes. You could dispense with having to direct the majority of your thoughts towards keeping fed, housed and warm. Although then you might end up with motivation problems and it devoting all its energies to developing innovative AI porn.
There's a lot of experience from practical AI (such as machine translation) that the more data you can bring to bear, the more accurate you can be. So I think Simon's conclusion in the last paragraph is wrong: AI can be better if it can be bigger than the brain, even if the basic implementation technique are the same.
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Possibly by modularising? It seems a great constraint that all one's specialist knowledge has to fit inside the same head. If your AI could over time get access to new sub-systems to populate with specialist knowledge it could maintain more attention on an overview. Internalise organisal structure?
* standard human brain, but make it run much faster
* standard human brain, but with connection to more traditional "computer" -- instant checking of facts, which ought to make it easier for the AI to spot where its fuzziness is causing problems
* make the AI less impatient; the human brain has evolved to take lots of shortcuts and not necessarily bother thinking things through, because for hard real-time tasks like "avoid getting eaten by lion" you can't afford to take the time to do that. You could make the AI more contemplative.