For decades, scientists have dreamed of building computer systems that could replicate the human brain’s talent for learning new tasks.

MIT researchers have now taken a major step toward that goal by designing a computer chip that mimics how the brain’s neurons adapt in response to new information. This phenomenon, known as plasticity, is believed to underlie many brain functions, including learning and memory.

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/brain-chip-1115.html

Awesome.

Ah, another step to the noblest goal possible of copying my personality into chips and thus achieving my personal immortality. It would be nice if the advancement continued faster - it's not as if I have all that much time left!

I wish I were less of a loser and could add something to that development by myself. I really should have spent more time in studies and labs instead of wasting my life just being young. I blame society.

P.S. By the way, currently it's just a single chip, representing a single connection between 2 neurons in human brain - but representing in fully, in analoguos way (as opposed to normal binary behavior of chips). It is incapable of learning by itself, but represent one of the major steps in building a learning-capable model of a brain.

Originally posted by Grahor

P.S. By the way, currently it's just a single chip, representing a single connection between 2 neurons in human brain - but representing in fully, in analoguos way (as opposed to normal binary behavior of chips). It is incapable of learning by itself, but represent one of the major steps in building a learning-capable model of a brain.

So, in other words..  5 to 10  years from now MIT or United States military will have a functioning self aware AI.

and in other news.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqfu734iMe4&feature=related

Originally posted by Precusor

Originally posted by Grahor

P.S. By the way, currently it's just a single chip, representing a single connection between 2 neurons in human brain - but representing in fully, in analoguos way (as opposed to normal binary behavior of chips). It is incapable of learning by itself, but represent one of the major steps in building a learning-capable model of a brain.

So, in other words..  5 to 10  years from now MIT or United States military will have a functioning self aware AI.

 

and in other news.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqfu734iMe4&feature=related

Flying cars and jetpacks were 10 years away... 50 years ago. And what about fusion power? It was 25 years away, _top_, 50 years ago and it's 25 years away, _top_, now!

It reminds me of how I've been doing one site for my clients. It's 2 weeks from being ready for 3 months already.

On the other hand, I didn't think Watson is possible with today's infotheory, and yet here he is, merrily thrashing human players.