Posted on 10/29/2014 1:56:10 PM PDT by Red Badger
The new hybrid device might not need humans at all.
In college, it wasn’t rare to hear a verbal battle regarding artificial intelligence erupt between my friends studying neuroscience and my friends studying computer science.
One rather outrageous fellow would mention the possibility of a computer takeover, and off they went. The neuroscience-savvy would awe at the potential of such hybrid technology as the CS majors argued we have nothing to fear, as computers will always need a programmer to tell them what to do.
Today’s news brings us to the Neural Turing Machine, a computer that will combine the way ordinary computers work with the way the human brain learns, enabling it to actually program itself. Perhaps my CS friends should reevaluate their position?
The computer is currently being developed by the London-based DeepMind Technologies, an artificial intelligence firm that was acquired by Google earlier this year. Neural networks — which will enable the computer to invent programs for situations it has not seen before — will make up half of the computer’s architecture. Experts at the firm hope this will equip the machine with the means to create like a human, but still with the number-crunching power of a computer, New Scientist reports.
In two different tests, the NTM was asked to 1) learn to copy blocks of binary data and 2) learn to remember and sort lists of data. The results were compared with a more basic neural network, and it was found that the computer learned faster and produced longer blocks of data with fewer errors. Additionally, the computer’s methods were found to be very similar to the code a human programmer would’ve written to make the computer complete such a task.
These are extremely simple tasks for a computer to accomplish when being told to do so, but computers’ abilities to learn them on their own could mean a lot for the future of AI.
10. Can work for days and even weeks on just coffee and Twinkies..................
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Don’t Be Evil = Bend To Evil
Pairing neural networks and ordinary digital computers is NOT new.
Sarah Connor: What did he just say?
Gas Station Attendant: He said there’s a storm coming in.
Sarah Connor: [sighs] I know.
They should call it- “Kaci” & make it a medical droid, since obviously you can acquire this knowledge extensively on your own……
What's not to like?
Richard Daystrom: “M-5 *thinks*, Captain!”
primesTo m = 2 : sieve [2..]
where
sieve (p:xs) = p : sieve [x | x - xs, rem x p /= 0]
All I know is don’t sell computers to hindus.
I read this sci fi story where a bunch of hindus bought an IBM to process all the names of God. They had like 5 billion of them, and believe that once they were all processed, the universe would come to an end.
IBM had a man onsite to make sure the machine kept running. And then suddenly the printer sputtered to a stop and overhead the stars began to wink out.
Actually, you’d think that a true AI could develop all kinds of mental illnesses, including new ones that we never considered. Think Marvin the paranoid android.
I created self-modifying code using Forth, decades ago. I presume they’ve done something much cooler, being Google and all.
I read this sci fi story where a bunch of hindus bought an IBM to process all the names of God. They had like 5 billion of them, and believe that once they were all processed, the universe would come to an end.
The Nine Billion Names of God, by Arthur C. Clarke.
OK, for my first program request: reverse engineer Windows 7, recode it from scratch, and then put the new code in the public domain.
You forgot “We know it doesn’t do anything yet. Its called Agile Development.”
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