IBM develops a computer chip with one million 'neurons' that 'functions like a human brain'

The London Daily Mail ^ | August 8, 2014 | Daniel Bates

[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....

[Cvengr]

Human thinking is a soulish activity, which is influenced both by bodily forces and spiritual forces. The first human had both soul and spirit life, as did the second Adam, but all others only after faith in Christ.

[Vaduz]

Some only consumes 3 watts see Obama.

[adorno]

A machine cannot mimic human thinking. A machine is can only do what it’s been programmed to do, by a human. The thinking occurred before it was installed into the machine.

[Mark17]

While knowledge increases Wisdom is wanting.

Yes, there is a difference between the two. I know some really intelligent people who voted for the Obungler, so knowledge does not guarantee critical thinking.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

You’re right, I should have said, “human behavior,” rather than “human thinking.”

[adorno]

You’re right, I should have said, “human behavior,” rather than “human thinking.”

Human behavior is not divorced from the brain, and the brain still does the thinking which controls human behavior.

Even the most minute of human behaviors is controlled by the brain, and no AI computer can even begin to match anything that a human brain can do.

[dfwgator]

computer chip with one million 'neurons' that 'functions like a human brain'

So it's always going to try to download porn?

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

-— no AI computer can even begin to match anything that a human brain can do. -—

No, but there is no obvious logical limit to the kinds of human behaviors that machines may some day imitate. Look at the robots that move and balance like animals, or Siri, for example. It was once the stuff of far-off science fiction.

[adorno]

...there is no obvious logical limit to the kinds of human behaviors that machines may some day imitate

There is not a single human behavior that a machine can imitate today, or even in the future. Remember that, whatever a machine "does", was already programmed into it, and "it" is an inanimate object.

Human behavior denotes emotions, and emotions cannot be "copied" and installed into a piece of hardware.