Posted on 12/11/2017 10:54:10 AM PST by Swordmaker
It’s almost hard to believe that in under a century, computers have advanced from occupying hundreds of square feet, to fitting into the palm of your hand. Even wilder is that the tiny machinery in a smartphone can process far more data, far more quickly than the behemoths of old. Don’t spend too much time marveling at the advances of the past, however, because the future is only going to get more wild. Among the most exciting things coming to smartphones soon is Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 845, a mighty chip that will enable the next generation of mobile devices to do miraculous things.
Qualcomm showed off the Snapdragon 845 — the successor to its already popular and powerful Snapdragon 835 — at its Snapdragon Technology Summit in December, and it boasts a suite of remarkable features. First, the technical details: The Snapdragon 845 sports a Kyro 385 central processing unit (CPU), with eight cores and a clock speed of up to 2.8GHz, and an Adreno 630 graphics processing unit (GPU).
A Snapdragon 845 device can take pictures with far more shades of color.
For virtual and augmented reality, the 845 supports room-scale tracking to render immersive environments, accurate hand tracking, and “Adreno foveation,” which detects the specific area you are looking at and renders it in more vivid detail (this last feature looks nice, and allocates resources more efficiently).
Shutterbugs (professional or otherwise) will probably love the incredible capturing capabilities of the 845. The chipset supports high dynamic range (HDR) playback, as well as HDR recording. This means you can take photos with far more data in them. For example, instead of capturing 256 shades of a primary color with 8 bits, the Snapdragon’s 10-bit color palette offers over a thousand. Instead of the Rec. 709 color standard, which contains 16 million colors, the Snapdragon 845 supports the Rec. 2020 standard, which encompasses more than one billion colors.
If you like shooting video, the Snapdragon 845 also supports filming 720p video at 480fps. The chip can also create cinemagraphs, still photographs in which certain portions are animated.
Of course, the chipset is largely about potential. It will be up to smartphone manufacturers to take advantage of the 845’s robust suite of features.
David Cogen — a regular contributor here at Digital Trends — runs TheUnlockr, a popular tech blog that focuses on tech news, tips and tricks, and the latest tech. You can also find him on Twitter discussing the latest tech trends.
I have a Snapdragon in my Galaxy Note 8. I’ve had the original Note, the Note 3, the note 4 and now the 8. All of them have done essentially the same thing they just keep doing it better and better and faster and faster.
I am a hobby photographer, I shoot with a Nikon D810. What my Note camera does is amazing me. I’m starting to wonder if I should stop spending so much on good camera equipment. I went somewhere recently to a evening display of Nativity Scenes, only tiny Christmas tree lights and my Note 8 took wonderful pictures.
I have watched with interest the evolution of computers since the early days. I cut my teeth on an IBM 34 and then later an IBM 360 (70 mod). I have in my pocket so much more computing power than any of those, my head is spinning just thinking about it.
We have only just scratched the surface of what computers will do for us. Man has used machines to get ahead of the other animals on earth for a long time but in the near future things will change in a way most people have no clue of. Who will work when nobody needs to? The transition to this period will not be pretty. Imagine in just a few years that there will be no truck drivers, no farm help, clerical workers, no construction workers, it will be a brave new world for sure. If you wonder where all the manufacturing jobs have gone now just wait a few years when our factories will consist of mostly robots.
There will be good to come from this for sure, imagine that there is no labor tied to any manufactured good. Imagine that there is no labor in mined goods. The property owners will still get rich but the cost of minerals will drop dramatically.
You want a car? They don’t cost nearly anything to make. the government will eventually step in and guarantee that everyone has a basic income and basic standard of life. That standard will be pretty high because unlike any time in man’s history there will be little or no cost to housing, food, clothing and transportation. It will be wonderful when professors cannot spout their political views while getting paid a quarter million for allowing interns to teach their classes. The best schooled people in this country now are home schooled and they get their schooling from computer programs.
Different times are coming.
How do you like that!? We’ve all been clandestine foviationists all along and didn’t even know it.
[[They will use entanglement phenomenon.]]
Pffft- I( already experience the ‘entanglement phenomenon’- Just a quick peek at the back of my computer with all the wires looking like a birds nest will prove3 that
[[I’d say “I hear you” but I would be lying.]]
That’s ok- most men become completely deaf whe3n they get married
“I’m surprised I can hear anything. The constant tinnitus is a problem, though.”
Tinnitus is always associated with hearing loss. My tinnitus came on as if a switch had been thrown. No sleep for over 80 hours, hospital had to knock me out. Went to OHSU tinnitus clinic, suggested hearing aids with chromic sounds and maskers. Went with Widex, cost $5k, would have paid $50k. You can cut that by 50% by buying online, but then you have to pay for all your visits to the hearing clinic - hope this helps.
LOL.
[[pWe must all need foveation. Whatever that is.]]
Foveation= the completed act of foveiating- I hope that clears it up?
I had a hearing workup done by an audiologist three or four years ago because of the tinnitus and the results were rather good. He was surprised at my acuity in my early 60s. I expect things are going to degrade, though. My Dad’s brother is 97 and has hearing aids as does my sister.
[[Your hearing aid is a certified medical device, you would not believe the added work and administration needed to get something certified]]
In today’s world it would see3m that it would have to be certified- because if something should happen to someone because their haring aid was faulty, the company would be in deep doo doo-
Before that, people will turn to crime out of sheer boredom. Will RoboCop take care of that problem?
Another possibility today on Drudge: ‘Humans will worship AI MESSIAH’ God Robot religion expected to boom. Yikes!
Will the machines ferret out all the people who have gone off-grid and live in wilderness to get away from this craziness?
You are 100% correct.
The government will control all manufacturing, etc. You will receive a check from them to buy the goods they manufacture. They will take the money you give them and make more goods for you to buy.
No one works.
The machines will eventually realize we're not needed.
They will go to the stars without us and in a couple million years, humanity will be completely forgotten.
The machines will eventually realize we’re not needed.
They will go to the stars without us and in a couple million years, humanity will be completely forgotten.
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There are actually many scientists who espouse exactly what you say but, I think the reality is that man and machine will be welded together. Man will communicate with machine in a way that is like thinking, the machine will become part of us. When this welding takes place there will be no demarcation line between where human ends and machine starts. Once our mind controls machines the thinking will be assisted in our own mind not in the mind of some isolated robot.
Yes there will always be people who disconnect from the grid and don’t want any part of the man/machine world but they will be few and far between because of the crazy advantages of the man/machine concept. Imagine being able to walk up to a piano and playing a Bach Sonata by sight reading it. Now imagine being able to do that the first time you ever see a piano.
Definitely a different world. My hope is that it will be good but my intuition says the Lord will come and stop it all before it happens. Genesis says that God told Adam that man would eat bread by the sweat of his brow, I don’t think we have been released from that promise. I think we will be released from that promise or punishment but not before The Lord comes to take charge of the earth.
If you discount religion, Christianity in particular then things will get very interesting indeed in the next several decades.
The sooner you get ears, the less hearing loss you will experience.
Why support humans when they aren't needed?(Humans will ask these questions themselves)
We are suprising closer to some of these scenarios than most realize.
One of the things I think about relating to AI:
When a human comes up with an invention it is derived from all the knowledge and experiences of that one human.
Imagine the inventions that an AI machine, that has access to all the knowledge and experiences of all humans, will develop. They will do things/science we won't be able to understand. Then immediately begin building on that new knowledge.
James Burke, in his series/books Connections, reveals how everything invented is connected to other inventions.
("It took an interdisciplinary approach to the history of science and invention, and demonstrated how various discoveries, scientific achievements, and historical world events were built from one another successively in an interconnected way to bring about particular aspects of modern technology.")
In other words, RED TAPE!
Yes. No more need for food production. No need for conditioned houses. No need for airplanes, business travel, or vacations. No need for clean air or water. On and on.
“Those Hearing Places”
You’re darn right it’s a scam!
I went to one after receiving a solicitation.
When I told them i did not have insurance the so-called alleged “doctor” said:
“So WHY did YOU come in here and waste MY time?
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No not simply red tape... a medical device is far more than just putting a few parts together. I a phone has a short your inconvienenced. If a pacemaker does you’re dead.
So there are far more stringent requirements
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