nytimes.com — Today, artificial intelligence, once the preserve of science fiction writers and eccentric computer prodigies, is back in fashion and getting serious attention from NASA and from Silicon Valley companies like Google as well as a new round of start-ups that are designing everything from next-generation search engines to machines that can listen.
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jasonhoblinMay 24, 2009
The is only One machine.The web is its OS.All screens look into the One.No bits will live outside the web.To share is to gain.Let the One read it.The One is us.<a class="user" href="http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/kevin_kelly_on_the_next_5_000_days_of_the_web.html">http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/kevin_kelly_on_ ...</a>For all you website developers, graphic artists and programmers.... this is what we do; we are building the One.
n01seMay 24, 2009
As a computer scientist who has studied A.I. let me say that none of us on this site will ever see this come to fruition, sorry. First off, Moore's Law has held up for a long time, but without a breakthrough in nanotechnology, that will begin to eventually slow, even now it's not so much of chips getting smaller, but more cores being added, essentially "hey we can't make this any smaller without going to an atomic scale, so let's simply add more chips instead of making them smaller" (my brother works at IBM in this field of research). Second, we don't understand how the human brain fully works, a computer can compute faster than our brains, but our brains do massive parallel computation to derive thoughts that no computer can yet do. Today's A.I. uses massive amounts of computation and memory for simple things trivial to our brains, and with the two hurdles mentioned above in our way right now, we'll be hard pressed to develop something capable of what this article and science fiction suggests.
spriggigMay 25, 2009
I think machines have surpassed some people already. ;)
grbradskMay 26, 2009
It's not coming yet, it's just breathing hard.
grbradskMay 26, 2009
No way they are simulating the rat's neocortex. Maybe one column of it. There is a project call the connectome <a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connectome">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connectome</a> which is aiming at cataloging every connection in the human brain. So far this has only been done for a 300 some odd neuron worm. We're a long long ways from a rat brain let alone a human one.