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This is a interesting development from IBM and just another step to the singularity.
A new form of computer memory might help machines match the capabilities of the human brain when it comes to tasks such as interpreting images or video footage.
Researchers at IBM used what’s known as phase-change memory to build a device that processes data in a way inspired by the workings of a biological brain. Using a prototype phase-change memory chip, the researchers configured the system to act like a network of 913 neurons with 165,000 connections, or synapses, between them. The strength of those connections change as the chip processes incoming data, altering how the virtual neurons influence one another. By exploiting that property, the researchers got the system to learn to recognize handwritten numbers.
...snip... Once artificial intelligence becomes more intelligent then the average human and we merge with it to become trranshuman (we transcend our biology) we will have run a way intelligence.
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You could think humans doesn't need to merge with computer to have runaway AI (say a 100% computer improves itself) but I think we have to or at least it will start that way.
My reasoning comes from Advanced Chess or Freestyle Chess (human player that uses a, more or less simple, chess computer), which for what I have been told anyway (source needed...), beats even the best chess computers because human and computer team up together, each adding its strengths.
We'll see this a lot concerning automation, humans will be used for those things AI can't do yet. Take Baxter, we need a human that moves it around, teaches it but more importantly, decides what Baxter is going to do today.
Well, maybe in 2045 we'll have computer only runaway AI but hopefully by then, we'll be those computers .
You could think humans doesn't need to merge with computer to have runaway AI (say a 100% computer improves itself) but I think we have to or at least it will start that way.
My reasoning comes from Advanced Chess or Freestyle Chess (human player that uses a, more or less simple, chess computer), which for what I have been told anyway (source needed...), beats even the best chess computers because human and computer team up together, each adding its strengths.
We'll see this a lot concerning automation, humans will be used for those things AI can't do yet. Take Baxter, we need a human that moves it around, teaches it but more importantly, decides what Baxter is going to do today.
Well, maybe in 2045 we'll have computer only runaway AI but hopefully by then, we'll be those computers .
I think I see what you are saying and while that might be the case today as AI gets more advanced exponentially that will not be the case. In time AI will be much better then humans and the same as trans-humans. I think that will really start to happen in the 2020's and why people are now saying we could hit the technological singularity as soon as 2025.
There's a cure for the "techno singularity" - EMP.
Yeah but a smart enough AI would make you not want to push that button (see AI-box experiment - RationalWiki which works okay for humans impersonations AI:s already) and without computers our society would fall apart...
People ask if technology will be cheap or expensive when we have the chip to merge with the Internet. Week look at this news story from 1983 about the cell phone.
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