Remember in 2001, the movie about the lifelike robotic boy, the story of David, a child-like android uniquely programmed with the ability to love. The film, directed, produced and co-written by Steven Spielberg, titled A.I. Artificial Intelligence, also known as A.I., was an eerie glimpse of a future filled with intelligence disseminating from non-human origins.
In fact, humanity has been focusing on this technology since the 1950's when artificial intelligence (AI) became a research field of its own. Who hasn't heard about computers comprehending human language, predicting future behavior depending on past events as well as beating humans in a game of chess or in a quiz show!
Recently, IBM revealed having a chip which will enable computers to function like a human brain.
IBM's developed computer chip replicates the biological synapses, neurons and axons of the human brain by means of algorithms and silicon circuitry. A key feature of the chip, is its ability to adapt to types of information that it wasn't in particular automated to expect. Similar to a human brain, a computer built with this chip will be able to learn through experiences and create its own theories about what those experiences indicate.
We are moving from computers being merely calculators, to being important learning systems. These types of created chips are going to allow computers not just to consume and interpret substantial amounts of complex, real-time information through multiple sensors and convert it into action, but additionally to rewire since they interact with the environment.
So, computers will be sensing the environment they are surrounded by and reacting accordingly!
By being able to handle the uncertainty that comes with the "real world", these (let's call them) cognitive computers will be far more effective at challenges that involve interacting with the real world. We will go from merely "steering a car through a maze" or "playing the classic Atari game Pong", IBM has high expectations for the future.
If a computer can be constructed with 10 billion neurons and 100 trillion synapses, it will be as powerful as the human brain.
To date, by using substantial supercomputers, science has managed to:
Simulate a cat's cerebral cortex (the thinking part of the brain)
1 percent of a human's cerebral cortex
40 percent of a mouse's brain
A rat's full brain
Remember when the supercomputer 'Watson' defeated a human contestant on the popular US quiz show Jeopardy?
Or when 'Deep Blue' defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov?
Based on the speed of research, in ten years, we should be seeing developed chips that will allow many "human-like" functions to be the expected capability of a computer!
However, as much as you may LOVE your computer by then, it probably still won't be able to LOVE you back! For now, we'll keep that reality in the movies!
Until next time
Scott & Heidi
In fact, humanity has been focusing on this technology since the 1950's when artificial intelligence (AI) became a research field of its own. Who hasn't heard about computers comprehending human language, predicting future behavior depending on past events as well as beating humans in a game of chess or in a quiz show!
Recently, IBM revealed having a chip which will enable computers to function like a human brain.
IBM's developed computer chip replicates the biological synapses, neurons and axons of the human brain by means of algorithms and silicon circuitry. A key feature of the chip, is its ability to adapt to types of information that it wasn't in particular automated to expect. Similar to a human brain, a computer built with this chip will be able to learn through experiences and create its own theories about what those experiences indicate.
We are moving from computers being merely calculators, to being important learning systems. These types of created chips are going to allow computers not just to consume and interpret substantial amounts of complex, real-time information through multiple sensors and convert it into action, but additionally to rewire since they interact with the environment.
So, computers will be sensing the environment they are surrounded by and reacting accordingly!
By being able to handle the uncertainty that comes with the "real world", these (let's call them) cognitive computers will be far more effective at challenges that involve interacting with the real world. We will go from merely "steering a car through a maze" or "playing the classic Atari game Pong", IBM has high expectations for the future.
If a computer can be constructed with 10 billion neurons and 100 trillion synapses, it will be as powerful as the human brain.
To date, by using substantial supercomputers, science has managed to:
Simulate a cat's cerebral cortex (the thinking part of the brain)
1 percent of a human's cerebral cortex
40 percent of a mouse's brain
A rat's full brain
Remember when the supercomputer 'Watson' defeated a human contestant on the popular US quiz show Jeopardy?
Or when 'Deep Blue' defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov?
Based on the speed of research, in ten years, we should be seeing developed chips that will allow many "human-like" functions to be the expected capability of a computer!
However, as much as you may LOVE your computer by then, it probably still won't be able to LOVE you back! For now, we'll keep that reality in the movies!
Until next time
Scott & Heidi
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