By: Gorden Russell
I can’t follow your math, Casey. When I figure it out step-by-step, doubling every 1.5 years, I get seven doublings in 10.5 years, resulting in 128 times the processing power. Continuing on that way, I...
View ArticleBy: Gorden Russell
Well, they won’t be able to put those “96 racks (1,572,864 processor cores…) into the skull of a terminator robot anytime soon. But! Using satellite communications, a Berserker in Afghanistan could be...
View ArticleBy: Editor
No, as noted below, simulating human nervous system speed is not the system design objective, which is to maximize complexity to the level of a cat brain, and minimize power requirements and size;...
View ArticleBy: John
Jabbah probably means synapse conductivity. The tune parameter. It’s like the kids who found a piano without strings, then found strings, put them somehow “in the right places” (= connectome), but...
View ArticleBy: Casey
Indeed, but I thought computer power was supposed to double every year, not every year and a half.
View ArticleBy: Jabbah
Yes, that’s a very good way of putting it too! To put this in perspective, the connectome for the C. elegans worm has been known for a number of years and is well documented, yet numerous projects to...
View ArticleBy: Jabbah
Just to add: The reason it helps researchers is that it provides a way to quickly validate methods of extracting this kind of information. Once reliable methods are found, applying them to more complex...
View ArticleBy: Editor
The BAA does not mention weighting but does mention synaptic conductance, which is apparently related? Dynamic range of synaptic conductance > 10 • Synaptic conductance increase >1%/pulse for...
View ArticleBy: Gianluca
Define “sane” and “stable” related to a true general purpose A.I. . We don’t know. I guess we first have to find out how it actually behaves.
View ArticleBy: star0
Very interesting… I would like to see it do something really neat, though — something like the Google cat-recognizinig neural network, only better.
View ArticleBy: Ben
The question is: Will it suffer? If we bring an “innocent” being with perfect innocence in our universe, we could theoretically create a whole new kind of suffering. If the being can think a million...
View ArticleBy: Dan
It will not suffer. Suffering is a biological beings way of informing itself that something is to be avoided in order to maintain its ultimate value which is life. A simulated being would need to be...
View ArticleBy: eldras
No Synapse yet. Not mapped. The pivotal brain component, and weighting’s not the half of it. But it;s a good progressive effort.
View ArticleBy: Matthew J Price
Just a small mistake: LLNL’s Sequoia is no longer the world’s fastest supercomputer. Titan now has that distinction, at least for a little while. http://goo.gl/Xx1XN
View ArticleBy: snake0
Very interesting, so in addition to the Connectome, a “Conductome” is also required.
View ArticleBy: Ralph Dratman
At least when you work with a worm you know what the behavior is supposed to look like. When the simulated human brain starts up, what would it do? Breathe and eat and cry, mainly, for the first...
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