Give a superintelligence some actuators and it becomes a robot. A superintelligence without actuators is not much use to anyone.
The point is that Gates’s turn of phrase is informative about the provenance of his ideas.
It might so inform—but Gates has a brain between his ears and mouth—and these concepts are likely to be old and familiar ones for him—so internal concept processing also seems fairly likely.
An oracle built with solid-state hard drives and no cooling fans would not be of use to anyone?
Give a superintelligence some actuators and it becomes a robot. A superintelligence without actuators is not much use to anyone.
The point is that Gates’s turn of phrase is informative about the provenance of his ideas.
It might so inform—but Gates has a brain between his ears and mouth—and these concepts are likely to be old and familiar ones for him—so internal concept processing also seems fairly likely.
An oracle built with solid-state hard drives and no cooling fans would not be of use to anyone?