Skynet is coming...

[Bricklayer]

http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/innovation/08/18/ibm.brain.chip/index.html

Some highlights:

Using the chips, IBM researchers have built a "brain wall" at a San Jose, California, lab. The long-term goal? A one-square-centimeter chip with the equivalent of 1 million neurons and 10 billion synapses.

Phase 2 of the project has been rewarded $21 million in funding from DARPA, the U.S. military's research branch.

 

[Bricklayer]

More details on humans ending their own supremacy:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/18/ibm_darpa_synapse_project/

In phase 4 of the project, IBM Research's team hopes to build a robot using this multi-chip fake brain and do the emulation and simulation of a fake brain with around 10 billion neurons, what IBM and DARPA call a "human level design".

You've got to be kidding me.

 

[ForlornKing]

Get ready for it

 

[LoungeLizard]

I'm not sure which is scarier, skynet or this....

Hope I didn't give anyone ideas in the Movie Draft thread...

 

[Insomniacal Fan]

Without the software they're building a dead brain. And they're nowhere close to getting the software down.

 

[ForlornKing]

Without the software they're building a dead brain. And they're nowhere close to getting the software down.

its inevitable man. with the exponential growth of technology its only a matter of time

 

[Superman]

More details on humans ending their own supremacy:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/18/ibm_darpa_synapse_project/



You've got to be kidding me.

And you know what the worst part is? We've already made all the movies with the best ideas on how to fight the machines. They'll be EMP proof. They won't need the sun as a source of fuel. We've already taught them their own weaknesses. We'll all be coppertops in no time.

 

[Return To Glory]

They're coming.

Hopefully we can find John Conner before it's too late . . . . .

 

[Emma]

Maybe it won't be all bad

 

[Warhawk]

I, for one, welcome our new computer/robot overlords.






Doesn't hurt to play it safe, does it?

 

[Spike]

I'm not sure which is scarier, skynet or this....

Hope I didn't give anyone ideas in the Movie Draft thread...

shutupshutupshutup.

 

[kennadog]

Yes, I've read that our computers will be smarter than us this century. (In some cases, they already are, LOL) I just don't think it sounds like a good idea. Terminator movies don't seem so far-fetched anymore. Scares the beejesus out of me.

 

[RookieOfTheDay]

Yes, I've read that our computers will be smarter than us this century. (In some cases, they already are, LOL) I just don't think it sounds like a good idea. Terminator movies don't seem so far-fetched anymore. Scares the beejesus out of me.

I'm pretty skeptical about claims like that. First off, "smart" can refer to a lot of different things. If we're just talking about problem solving, they're already "smarter" than us in some ways, as you said. But if you're taking about something like Data on Star Trek, that's still science fiction. And even if we could create something with that level if intelligence, it would still have the same shortcomings that Data had, no intuition, no creativity, etc.

 

[Superman]

shutupshutupshutup.

LOL. If that's on your list, you have bigger problems than this post.

 

[uolj]

LOL. If that's on your list, you have bigger problems than this post.

Actually I'd seriously consider the sequel. Seriously.

 

[Superman]

Actually I'd seriously consider the sequel. Seriously.

I liked both of them. No use for them though.

 

[Spike]

LOL. If that's on your list, you have bigger problems than this post.

No. 5 is alive, buddy.