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theman1119Aug 10, 2010
So the internet really will become Skynet!
22morphAug 11, 2010
client/server
zerocubedAug 11, 2010
Actually, based on user input and search queries, the internet is more likely to be a porn addict, utilizing crass language, flowcharts and shorthand sprinkled with homophobic, racist, and nazi remarks to get its point across.
In other words, the most you'll have to worry about is 'Skynet' being a troll.
agentfalconAug 11, 2010
A troll with access to nuclear missiles...
Closed AccountAug 11, 2010
don't forget that its main means of communicating everything will be through infographs.
xgenericAug 11, 2010
Oh great, it'll destroy civilizations for lulz.
srs2000Aug 11, 2010
I'm trying to imagine skynet's lolcats.
jantikAug 10, 2010
Thank goodness it is not a series of tubes!
remingtonhAug 11, 2010
again - too soon?
kageryuAug 11, 2010
13 other people don't think so. Make that 14.
reactadaptAug 10, 2010
There are neurons all over my brain right now posting photos of themselves in various stages of inebriation
theshad0wAug 11, 2010
Umm, apparently these scientists have never heard of a neural network
areallygoodnameAug 11, 2010
The most common type of man made neural network is the feed forward network. It is hierarchical. Most man made neural networks are.
They have discovered that the brain is not like that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_network
clairdelune371Aug 11, 2010
This has been discovered years ago. Why does anybody think this is "new"s?
ymegAug 11, 2010
yeah, those stupid scientists at the NAS.
zerocubedAug 11, 2010
You think they would watch the Science channel a bit. That's where I learned about networks in the 6 Degrees special. Turns out there are networks just about damn everywhere, including the internet.
xsubmergedAug 11, 2010
Terminator: My CPU is a neural net processor; a learning computer.
eddiepotatoAug 11, 2010
"I know now why you cry: because you are a girly man."
harrypowersAug 11, 2010
Who is Brian?
eddiepotatoAug 11, 2010
That one guy who acts all internetty.
harrypowersAug 11, 2010
Nice.
whoreableAug 11, 2010
Sup?
shervin123Aug 11, 2010
This is your brain on the Internet. Welcome.
Closed AccountAug 11, 2010
"USC College neuroscientists Richard H. Thompson and Larry W. Swanson used the method to trace circuits running through a "hedonic hot spot"
Forget the rats, I'd like to run through a "hedonic hot spot"
triskozko2Aug 11, 2010
As the owner of four pet rats who go insane over any food aroma, I can confirm the existence of this neural phenomenon.
aeone77Aug 11, 2010
So you're telling me it's like a series of tubes where information is being filled and transmitted?
remingtonhAug 11, 2010
too soon?
kinggorillaAug 11, 2010
Who thought it was a like a pyramid?
http://www.platformnation.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/silent_hill.jpg
remingtonhAug 11, 2010
that's why mine is sometimes slow and times-out occasionally.
tomnzAug 11, 2010
Who the hell thought it was like a pyramid??
gobstopper45Aug 11, 2010
What about those of us with a one-track mind?
I have nothing but penis on the mind, all the time.
khastAug 11, 2010
404: Brain Not Found
If you feel you have gotten here by mistake, please press F5 or the back button. If you find you have neither of these appendages, panic.
paranor01Aug 11, 2010
Did you /dev/null ?
hollowexAug 11, 2010
amnesia
maxboogerAug 11, 2010
So does that mean that when I drink alcohol, I'm DOSing myself?
paranor01Aug 11, 2010
And if you smoke Cannabis, your throughput goes up.
StrutThatAssAug 11, 2010
The brain is not a big truck.
bartledooAug 11, 2010
No duh. The brain is also more like a bowl of tapioca than a machete.
mglowblue87Aug 11, 2010
I wish my brain were shaped like a pyramid... easier to start conversations that way.
srs2000Aug 11, 2010
.... Try "Hi.. I'm bob. Want a beer?"
Much easier.
mglowblue87Aug 11, 2010
"The pharaohs built my brain, want to go back to my place?"
I think it would work better, especially since my name isn't Bob - that could get weird later.
Closed AccountAug 11, 2010
Definition of Facebook?
Facebook is an Electronic Social Network on the Internet that you can find every one else there but losing yourself.
thomasjasonAug 11, 2010
Of course it is, we're recreating ourselves.
bradhanson22Aug 11, 2010
no s**t we are all screwed
tomgfromcanadaAug 11, 2010
no, its more like tron.
falconearAug 11, 2010
So is anybody else worried that the Internet is just going to "wake up" one day?
irfnaAug 11, 2010
Only schizophrenics.
ianmgullAug 11, 2010
The future is gonna kick ass:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dyu7yevZRGw
culytAug 11, 2010
Not really. The Internet itself isn't learning or anything like that, it's not like packet routing itself could be used for some kind of computation (and if it could it would be very hard to pull off).
The closest possibility is that one supercomputer running some kind of neural network, AI, evolving program or whatever could become self aware and try and infect other computers on the Internet and be intelligent enough to break through just about any system. But in order for that to really happen, the other computers would have to be powerful enough to be worth bothering with, and that's after you take the lag into account. Maybe in 2030 when you current desktop system is as powerful as a current supercomputer it might be feasible.
mondaynitesAug 11, 2010
So when we created the internet... We just built a gigantic model of the brain? Damn the power of the human mind.
paladinAug 11, 2010
That would explain how incredibly stupid we are.
remingtonhAug 11, 2010
lol I'm one of them. I don't actually care - just making chit-chat.
allanharrisonAug 11, 2010
duh.
whoreableAug 11, 2010
My brain is exactly like the internet. Full of porn.
bmorekarlAug 11, 2010
Well breaking the internet up into heirarchies like Verizon showing preference to Google content is in fact trying to move the internet from a web to a more pyramidal structure.
While free association networks may be more efficient - pyramidal structures (like governments) are easier to manipulate. That's why there will always be pressure to prioritize the Web.
rrwestAug 11, 2010
Duh.
This is why stroke and brain-injured patients can recover some, if not all, functioning.
The scientists who performed the study didn't know that?
Funny, everyone else sure did.
indoleringAug 14, 2010
Considering that single cell aeomeba can have pavolovian conditioning and since the brain is all about patterns of electrical signals (http://tinyurl.com/23hpyrf), I think a copy editor might be overwhelmed by basic science. This just isn't exactly stunningly new...