The assumption there is that the faste the hardware underneath, the faster the sentience running on it will be. But this isn’t supported by evidence. We haven’t produced a sentient AI to know whether this is true or not.
For all we know, there may be a upper limit to “thinking” based on neural propagation of information. To understand and integrate a concept requires change and that change may move slowly across the mind and underlying hardware.
Humans have sleep for example to help us learn and retain information.
As for self modification—we don’t have atomic level control over the meat we run on. A program or model doesn’t have atomic level control over its hardware. It can’t move an atom at will in its underlying circuitry to speed up processing for example. This level of control does not exist in nature in any way.
We don’t know so many things. For example, what if consciousness requires meat? That it is physically impossible on anything other than meat? We just assume it’s possible using metal and silica.
The assumption there is that the faste the hardware underneath, the faster the sentience running on it will be. But this isn’t supported by evidence. We haven’t produced a sentient AI to know whether this is true or not.
For all we know, there may be a upper limit to “thinking” based on neural propagation of information. To understand and integrate a concept requires change and that change may move slowly across the mind and underlying hardware.
Humans have sleep for example to help us learn and retain information.
As for self modification—we don’t have atomic level control over the meat we run on. A program or model doesn’t have atomic level control over its hardware. It can’t move an atom at will in its underlying circuitry to speed up processing for example. This level of control does not exist in nature in any way.
We don’t know so many things. For example, what if consciousness requires meat? That it is physically impossible on anything other than meat? We just assume it’s possible using metal and silica.