More hardware [...] how do you suppose would that get us closer to digital intelligence?
IF Minsky’s “Society of Mind” is near to accurate, then if we had enough separate “narrow” agents operating, we could solve all problems that could be encountered—call this the “Eusocial Generalization” approach. That is, rather than actually solving the problem of general intelligence, just make programs that solve every last problem we can think of, individually—and then run them all at once.
Horridly inefficient, but if we had magically infinite computational power available we could at least implement it.
As to the “bigger data”—an element can be part of the solution without being capable of providing the entire solution. Highly rigorous relational databases allow pattern-matching algorithms to at least perform superior analysis.
IF Minsky’s “Society of Mind” is near to accurate, then if we had enough separate “narrow” agents operating, we could solve all problems that could be encountered—call this the “Eusocial Generalization” approach. That is, rather than actually solving the problem of general intelligence, just make programs that solve every last problem we can think of, individually—and then run them all at once.
Horridly inefficient, but if we had magically infinite computational power available we could at least implement it.
As to the “bigger data”—an element can be part of the solution without being capable of providing the entire solution. Highly rigorous relational databases allow pattern-matching algorithms to at least perform superior analysis.