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Asiankid0 · 08-18-2011, 11:18 PM

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(CNN) -- Making computers behave like humans has taken another step forward.

IBM on Thursday announced it has created a chip designed to imitate the human brain's ability to understand its surroundings, act on things that happen around it and make sense of complex data.

Instead of requiring the type of programming that computers have needed for the past half-century, the experimental chip will let a new generation of computers, called "cognitive computers," learn through their experiences and form their own theories about what those experiences mean.

The chips revealed Thursday are a step in a project called SyNAPSE (Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics). The two chip prototypes are a step toward letting computers "reason" instead of reacting solely based on data that has been pre-programmed, IBM says.

"Imagine traffic lights that can integrate sights, sounds and smells and flag unsafe intersections before disaster happens," said Dharmendra Modha, the project leader for IBM Research. "Or imagine cognitive co-processors that turn servers, laptops, tablets and phones into machines that can interact better with their environments."

The chips' processing power is not unlike that of IBM's Watson supercomputer that beat two human champions on "Jeopardy!" this year.

Other scenarios the researchers envision: A computing system that could monitor the world's water supply -- measuring things like temperature, pressure, wave height and acoustics -- then give a warning when it thinks a tsunami is likely.

Or imagine a sensor that a grocery store owner could use to read sights, smells and temperatures and give an alert that produce may have gone bad.

"The computers we have today are more like calculators," Modha told tech blog VentureBeat. "We want to make something like the brain. It is a sharp departure from the past."

source: http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/innovat...html?hpt=hp_t2
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get ready for Judgement Day guys, its not that far away~

gratscorpio · 08-18-2011, 11:28 PM

If it mimics people no worries, it will be to stupid to properly pull off a judgement day.

scorpio

Asiankid0 · 08-18-2011, 11:30 PM

unless ofc for some retarded reason the military all over the world give a computer full access and control to the missile system(s)~ and that computer becomes self-aware.

Inc Terminator

Hizumi · 08-19-2011, 12:07 AM

till it figures out what self-awareness is. then your porn folder will have a password on it you dont remember setting.

Eusnon · 08-19-2011, 02:22 AM

I don't think it'd be completely safe to have computers that could think as we do. I mean come on people I'm sure everyone at least once in their life has made a stupid *** decision and the last thing we need is some Artificially intelligent thang to decide that the world would be better without humans.

They'd have to put limitations and stuff on them and some kind of self destruct that they'd be sure can't be undone and such.

Gurenbanka · 08-19-2011, 09:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Hizumi

till it figures out what self-awareness is. then your porn folder will have a password on it you dont remember setting.

COOL! Always wanted an auto-protect function.

But yeah, hoping the robots will come soon.

xBlazex · 08-20-2011, 02:14 AM

dont let it be hook to internet then he find out human are evil and it try to destory because we fight all the time lol

Espada1 · 08-20-2011, 02:31 AM

Brb, cylons

Would be cool though.

Lawliet1 · 08-20-2011, 02:50 AM

Can it simulate orgasms?

xBlazex · 08-20-2011, 03:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Lawliet1

Can it simulate orgasms?

you have to worry more on this chip going think that human are the evil for this world and think we should be delete or better yet a hacker make virus to make the chip copy the hack and virus making skill to point it be hard to destory a virus on the internet

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08-18-2011, 11:28 PM	#2 (permalink)
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Eusnon Sun? What Sun? Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 971 Reputation: 26	I don't think it'd be completely safe to have computers that could think as we do. I mean come on people I'm sure everyone at least once in their life has made a stupid *** decision and the last thing we need is some Artificially intelligent thang to decide that the world would be better without humans. They'd have to put limitations and stuff on them and some kind of self destruct that they'd be sure can't be undone and such. __________________

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xBlazex Banned Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: USA Wisconsin Language: English only Disability: Language-Based Hates: Grammar Trolls Posts: 3,133 Reputation: 72	dont let it be hook to internet then he find out human are evil and it try to destory because we fight all the time lol

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Espada1 Xenonight2's Zealot Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 3,466 Reputation: 32	Brb, cylons Would be cool though.