1000 petabytes of what? RAM? How do you know that’s enough to do what you want anyway? My point at any rate is that we can’t grab a billion dollars and make some computer that is “fast enough to ‘evolve an AI’” just by throwing money at the problem—universities, companies and governments are spending money right now on supercomputers, and they still have limitations due to underlying technical issues like cooling and inter-processor communication (as the other commenters pointed out).
Watson is a big complex program, not some small DNA-like seed that can easily be mutated and iterated on automatically. There’s no known small seed that generates anything like a general intelligent agent (except of course DNA itself and the resulting biology which can’t be very efficiently simulated even with a supercomputer).
1000 petabytes of what? RAM? How do you know that’s enough to do what you want anyway? My point at any rate is that we can’t grab a billion dollars and make some computer that is “fast enough to ‘evolve an AI’” just by throwing money at the problem—universities, companies and governments are spending money right now on supercomputers, and they still have limitations due to underlying technical issues like cooling and inter-processor communication (as the other commenters pointed out).
Watson is a big complex program, not some small DNA-like seed that can easily be mutated and iterated on automatically. There’s no known small seed that generates anything like a general intelligent agent (except of course DNA itself and the resulting biology which can’t be very efficiently simulated even with a supercomputer).