X-Message-Number: 25500
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 16:00:40 +0100
From: Henri Kluytmans <>
Subject: Re : Singularity a Fantasy

Peter Merel writes :

>The Singularity isn't making a pound of independent factory-style 
>assemblers. It requires coherent work on scales far more complex than 
>insert molecular flap A in molecular slot B times Avogadro's Number. 

Indeed, with MNT manufacturing capabilities, AI is just around the corner.

The computational capabilities of a big computer (city block size) 
made of MNT mechanical computing logic circuits (not to mention electronic 
components) has enough computational capacity to use evolutionairy methods 
to create AI neural networks in time scales of several years.

See this old cryonet message from John Clark :

http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/dsp.cgi?msg=5506

I'm not aware of any claims that AI is required for command and
control issues of an assembler. Actually estimates of the 
processing power of the controller inside an assembler are of 
the order of an old 8-bit CPU, with a tape-like storage of 
a couple of megabytes, and some smaller working memory.

See :  http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/MITtecRvwSmlWrld/article.html
and    http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/nano4/merklePaper.html

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