Oops, excuse my mistaken quote of the Tianhe flops.
Regarding the bandwidth bottleneck, it's fascinating to see that as one hardware problem is overcome, the next one looms even greater. The same is happening with the software, as machine learning, etc. is advancing (as contentious as that statement may be to people deep in the industry) the coming hurdles look even more intimidating.
The algorithms that need to be developed to reach the milestones of intelligence are incredibly difficult. What excites me is evolutionary algorithms that may be harnessed to reach those milestones. This may be a brute-force method, and researchers would have to know what to tell the algorithms to select for at first, but with increasing computational power, running significant amounts of these algorithms in parallel could be negligible. If you see this comment dhj, have you considered evolutionary computation in your predictions? I'd be interested in what you think, as your clarification of the bandwidth problem was enlightening to me.
Regarding the bandwidth bottleneck, it's fascinating to see that as one hardware problem is overcome, the next one looms even greater. The same is happening with the software, as machine learning, etc. is advancing (as contentious as that statement may be to people deep in the industry) the coming hurdles look even more intimidating.
The algorithms that need to be developed to reach the milestones of intelligence are incredibly difficult. What excites me is evolutionary algorithms that may be harnessed to reach those milestones. This may be a brute-force method, and researchers would have to know what to tell the algorithms to select for at first, but with increasing computational power, running significant amounts of these algorithms in parallel could be negligible. If you see this comment dhj, have you considered evolutionary computation in your predictions? I'd be interested in what you think, as your clarification of the bandwidth problem was enlightening to me.