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  • Power and Capacity



    Power rating of natural and artificial thinkers
  • Information handling capacity in computers has been growing about ten
    million times faster than it did in nervous systems during our
    evolution. The power doubled every two years in the 1950s, 1960s and
    1970s, doubled every 18 months in the 1980s, and is now doubling each
    year.

  • Computer power: 1900-1997



    Power/cost of 150 computers from 1900 to 1997, rising 1000x every 20, now 10, years

  • AI Computer power: 1900-1997



    AI computers, rising from .1 to 1 MIPS in 1960, then from 1 MIPS to 100 in 1990s

  • Progress in Computer Chess, a thin slice of AI



    Computer chess rating rising steadily from 800 (infant) in 1956 to<br/>over 2700 (world champion) in 1997
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