The Coming Superbrain
It’s summertime and the Terminator is back. A sci-fi movie thrill ride, “Terminator Salvation” comes complete with a malevolent artificial intelligence dubbed Skynet, a military R.&D. project that gained self-awareness and concluded that humans were an irritant — perhaps a bit like athlete’s foot — to be dispatched forthwith.
The notion that a self-aware computing system [...]
Air Force Looks for Core Algorithms of Thought
The Defense Department is continuing its push to reduce human thought and human action to a few lines of code. The latest effort comes from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, which is looking to build “mathematical or computational models of human attention, memory, categorization, reasoning, problem solving, learning and motivation, and decision making.”
The [...]
Self-Organizing Nanotech Could Revolutionize Storage Industry
Sapphire crystals may be the next material to transform the electronics industry, thanks to nanotechnology researchers who have announced a new way of storing data that would fit the contents of 250 DVDs on a coin-sized surface.
The study, published in Science, illustrates how nanoscale elements can organize themselves over a large sheet of semiconductor [...]
An invention that could change the internet
The biggest internet revolution for a generation will be unveiled this month with the launch of software that will understand questions and give specific, tailored answers in a way that the web has never managed before. The new system, Wolfram Alpha, showcased at Harvard University in the US last week, takes the first step towards [...]
How Bees See Could Improve AI Systems
New research from Monash University bee researcher Adrian Dyer could lead to improved artificial intelligence systems and computer programs for facial recognition. Dr Dyer is one of Australia’s leading bee experts and his latest research shows that honeybees can learn to recognise human faces even when seen from different viewpoints. Dr Dyer said the research [...]
Could the net become self-aware?
Yes, if we play our cards right - or wrong, depending on your perspective. In engineering terms, it is easy to see qualitative similarities between the human brain and the internet’s complex network of nodes, as they both hold, process, recall and transmit information. “The internet behaves a fair bit like a mind,” says Ben [...]
Supercomputer as a Service
Nearly one and a half years after making a stunning entry into the global supercomputer list with Eka, ranked as the fourth fastest supercomputer in the world, Computational Research Laboratories (CRL), a Tata Sons’ subsidiary, has succeeded in creating a new market for supercomputers – that of offering supercomputing power on rent to enterprises in [...]
Moore’s Law at end
Moore’s Law is maxing out. This is an oft-made prediction in the computer industry. The latest to chime in is an IBM fellow, according to a report. Intel co-founder Gordon Moore predicted in 1965 that the number of transistors on a microprocessor would double approximately every two years–a prediction that has proved to be remarkably [...]
Microchip Mimics a Brain With 200,000 Neurons
An international team of scientists in Europe has created a silicon chip designed to function like a human brain. With 200,000 neurons linked up by 50 million synaptic connections, the chip is able to mimic the brain’s ability to learn more closely than any other machine.
Although the chip has a fraction of the number of [...]
Intelligent Mistakes: How to Incorporate Stupidity Into Your AI Code
Twenty years ago, I was working on my first commercial game: Steve Davis World Snooker, one of the first snooker/pool games to have an AI opponent. The AI I created was very simple. The computer just picked the highest value ball that could be potted, and then potted it.
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Since it knew the precise positions of [...]
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- Borg-like cybots may patrol government networks
- IBM aims to get smart about AI
- Intelligent Mistakes: How to Incorporate Stupidity Into Your AI Code
- Microchip Mimics a Brain With 200,000 Neurons
- Intel: Use our CPU (not their GPU)
- Collective Intelligence in Action
- Leading futurists, thinkers to launch Silicon Valley university
- Moore's Law at end
- Atomic Scale Computing
- British Scientist Warns We Must Protect The Vulnerable From Robots
