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What would be interesting is to limit the AI processing speed to human capacity, which is something like 60 bits per second.

In all these AI v. Human games I see, it is really apples to oranges because the human consumes vastly less resources and compute cycles to perform at the same level as the AI. And when I say 'vast' I mean Vast. There is like a quintillion factor difference between the AI and the human.

There is no way the AI is even comparable to the human. To be comparable, we'd have to parallelize the game and lock millions of humans onto the game full time for millions of years.

At the end of the day, the AI is just a more sophisticated lookup table. There is as yet no analogous AI to human play.

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It would be interesting to see if there are any meta reports on people doing research on the topic of resource constrained AI. Has anyone explored whether or not an AI can improve on its own algorithm while being heavily resource constrained?

Is the ability to use less resources a limit of our current hardware? Do we see the current hardware performance improvement trajectory being able to reduce the amount of resources an AI consumes to perform a task?

Are our algorithms simply not tuned well for using smaller resources? Could we build better algorithms around resource deficient environments?

Great questions. From what I can tell, AI is just as resource hungry as it ever was, if not more. The only difference is now we have more resources to throw at the traditional algorithms.

I think we should just accept that humans and computers will be good at different things. Otherwise when AlphaStar 5 walks on stage and smiles at the camera we'll be criticizing its use of fuel cells instead of digesting food.

There's a lot of knobs to wiggle here. I'm more interested in finding out what emerges in the system that we can actually call "AI" the more restraints we put on it.

> What would be interesting is to limit the AI processing speed to human capacity, which is something like 60 bits per second.

What part of human processing capacity is this slow?

Our conscious thought. E.g. how many words can you read in a second, vs how many words can a computer 'read' in a second? Conscious thought seems to be the bottleneck in our processing, since we don't play these games unconsciously.

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