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on Sunday August 10 2014, @01:05AM
from the maybe-this-will-help-them-sell-their-chip-business dept.
from the maybe-this-will-help-them-sell-their-chip-business dept.
A new kind of computer chip, unveiled by IBM today, takes design cues from the wrinkled outer layer of the human brain. Though it is no match for a conventional microprocessor at crunching numbers, the chip consumes significantly less power, and is vastly better suited to processing images, sound, and other sensory data.
IBM's SyNapse chip processes information using a network of just over one million "neurons," which communicate with one another using electrical spikes-as actual neurons do. The chip uses the same basic components as today's commercial chips-silicon transistors. But its transistors are configured to mimic the behaviour of both neurons and the connections-synapses-between them.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by kaszz on Sunday August 10 2014, @01:52AM
This might be related to these projects:
* Blue brain project [wikipedia.org], 2005 Switzerland
* Human brain project [wikipedia.org], 2013 European Union
* BRAIN Initiative [wikipedia.org], 2013 USA
In strong AI, the lunch eats you! ;)
Humans are perhaps to stupid collectively to comprehend the inherent risk with these projects.
(Score: 1) by Subsentient on Sunday August 10 2014, @01:55AM
I can see the danger clearly. Terminator meets Borg, anyone?
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 3, Interesting) by kaszz on Sunday August 10 2014, @02:20AM
Rather military leadership would be outsmarted and sidelined while their own AI does what it deems necessary for whatever goal it has if any. It will probably be something along this lines but not as we have imagine it. The future has a tendency to keep themes and metaphors but actual events usually happens in other ways than imagined.
Long ago. Futurists imagined that orchestras would do live performances and the music would be distributed by means of very long tubes into living quarters. Well think about it. What did happen and what means were used? ;)
We have also come a long way from Baird scanning disc television but the principles from 1924 still remains. Raster, serialization, signal conditioning etc.
(Score: 1) by DECbot on Sunday August 10 2014, @03:43AM
More like the borg meets twitter.
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base