Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!microsoft!w-colinp
From: w-colinp@microsoft.UUCP (Colin Plumb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AI with Ami.....
Message-ID: <789@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 2 Mar 89 07:56:23 GMT
References: <9472@louie.udel.EDU> <5244@hcr.UUCP>
Reply-To: w-colinp@microsoft.uucp (Colin Plumb)
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edwin@hcrvax.UUCP (Edwin Hoogerbeets) wrote:
> In article <9472@louie.udel.EDU> mmdf@udel.UUCP writes:
>> I would like to hear about any interesting usage of the Amiga related
>> to artificial intelligence, something which would be hard for a normal
>> pc to do.  

> I always thought the Amiga would be great for simulating neural nets,
> because of the multi-tasking OS. 

> Each node would have its own process.  Each node could be connected to
> others via [fast] links that are, in reality, messages between
> MsgPort's. This makes it easy to simulate any kind of perverted
> topology imaginable!  Shared memory is easy, because any address valid
> for one process is valid for the other processes, and semaphores are
> already implemented in the OS.

Edwin... a cell in a neural net has about 3 words of context.  Adding
Tasks, MsgPorts, and Messages flying around would kill it in overhead,
both in space and time.

Sorry, but... not this time.

Well, what about AI is hard for an IBM-style PC to do?  Mostly, AI stuffe
needs a large address space.  Even Amy's 9.5 Meg (without an '020) might
not be big enough.  
-- 
	-Colin (uunet!microsoft!w-colinp)

"Don't listen to me.  I never do." - The Doctor