Posted on 08/10/2014 1:36:31 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
* TrueNorth is being hailed as the world’s first neurosynaptic computer chip because it can figure things out on its own
* Modern processors have 1.4 bn transistors and consume up to 140 watts but the IBM chip contains 5.4 bn transistors and uses just 70 milliwatts
* Richard Doherty, the research director of tech research firm Envisioneering Group, hailed IBM's chip as a ‘really big deal’
IBM has developed a computer chip which it says will function like a human brain in a giant step forward for artificial intelligence.
TrueNorth is being hailed as the world’s first neurosynaptic computer chip because it can figure things out on its own.
The chip also has one million ‘neurons’ and could cram the same power as a super computer into a circuit the size of a postage stamp.
Experts said that it was as big an advance as the advent of supercomputers in the 1980.
Horst Simon, deputy director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, told the New York Times: ‘It is a remarkable achievement in terms of scalability and low power consumption’.
Modern processors have some 1.4 billion transistors and consume up to 140 watts but the IBM chip contains 5.4 billion transistors and uses just 70 milliwatts of power, meaning it is incredibly efficient....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
With this beast around, how many programmers are they going to need?
I wonder how long before we get it in our computers? I am reminded of a Bible verse that says knowledge will be increased. Maybe it is a sign of the times.
Windows will still hog all the resources.
with any kind of news like this, coupled with the knowledge of what the nsa is capable of, in addition to what Obama and soros have in store for us, I have a feeling of doom. but, I also get a picture in my mind that at once sooths me but also gives me paings of yearning.
its around the year 1955, could be ohio, a housewife, wearing the kind of dress harriet nelson wore, is pushing a shopping cart down the aisle of a super market. the aisles are spotless, the clerks are balding, white men in smocks, its the middle of the day because she doesn’t work, the husband the only bread winner. she’s smiling and radiant, cheerfully removing items off the shelves and putting them in her cart.
but then i’m awakened to “like us on facebook”.
sorry, I don’t know where that just came from.
I can’t wait for its first tweet.
“All your ‘neurons’ are belong to us”
As long as AI/robotics are more expensive:
US & First World country citizens: -Infinity (read: always decreasing)
Guest Workers not seeking citizenship: Infinity
Non-US citizens in Third World countries: Infinity
The human brain consumes 25 watts.
While knowledge increases Wisdom is wanting.
The real question is if this thing can think, what will it be spending it’s time thinking about? I hope they can’t get it to do anything but watch Oprah and wish it could eat Cheetos.
Skynet?
Kids will be talking to their TrueNorth boosted cellphones, able to hold all 20MegaPixel photos they can take on their cell phones, while government workers will still be challenged to print out one page of 1kB text without encryption software erasing it.
“Programming” such a thing wold likely be similar to raising a retarded child...
First in: I, for one, welcome our new computer overlords.
It will be sold to marketeers and you will get 4,063 spam messages in your inbox daily. *sigh*
Yes. It will be no more able to think than an Apple IIe, Babbage's mechanical proto-computer, an abascus, or a box full of nuts and bolts.
Thinking is essentially a spiritual activity, that is associated with matter.
A machine can mimic thinking, and there is no logical limit to machines in this regard.
Yes, but now it will be because "it feels entitled" to them...
“A machine can mimic thinking,”
Exactly. Back in the early ‘80s, the AI/LISP groups preached the “thinking” machines. They said the alternative, structured programming, couldn’t replicate AI because the hardware was too slow. The sentiment was that AI was a concept waiting for faster hardware. Now, hardware is fast and AI is still preaching about “thinking”.
And besides, whose thinking patterns are they mimicking?
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