One step closer to AI, two steps closer to our own obsolescence.

Fred Buchanan 11 Mar, 2008 at 12:32pm ET Article published in Tech

Japanese research scientists have developed a cirrcuit that mimics the function of the human brain. This nano-machine performs 16 times faster than current transistor technology, with the potential to operate 1000 times faster than todays fastest transistors.

More HERE

Comments

11 Mar 2008 ~ 8:09pm yagga Does anyone else have a peculiar feeling that skynet is approaching us?
11 Mar 2008 ~ 9:16pm muddocktor

yagga wrote:

Does anyone else have a peculiar feeling that skynet is approaching us?

Yep, that was my thoughts exactly!
11 Mar 2008 ~ 10:57pm Gate28 *begins to hunt down nerd with a chess-playing robot named after a Dark Age civilization*
11 Mar 2008 ~ 10:59pm Thrax Superintelligent AIs already exist, but are either being kept secret or are (more likely) keeping themselves hidden. The NSA has had city-sized supercomputer arrays since the 1970s. Something's going on. The "Illuminati" conspiracy theories - all based in intelligent, sensible, sane, rational analysis - point to the existence of a scheming super-intelligent AI which, in all likelihood, went live in the 1950s.
11 Mar 2008 ~ 11:01pm Gate28

Thrax wrote:

Superintelligent AIs already exist, but are either being kept secret or are (more likely) keeping themselves hidden. The NSA has had city-sized supercomputer arrays since the 1970s. Something's going on. The "Illuminati" conspiracy theories - all based in intelligent, sensible, sane, rational analysis - point to the existence of a scheming super-intelligent AI which, in all likelihood, went live in the 1950s.

screenshots or it never happened. Show me proof.
11 Mar 2008 ~ 11:02pm Winfrey Deus Ex...Machina!
11 Mar 2008 ~ 11:09pm Thrax

Gate28 wrote:

screenshots or it never happened. Show me proof.

How can you take pictures or screenshots of an inhumanly-intelligent network that has had more than fifty years to autonomously develop its obfuscation techniques? In the early days, dozens of scientists were involved with plausibly-deniable/clandestine operations to keep this equipment a secret until the machine was sufficiently powerful to operate covertly of its own accord. Billions of dollars, particularly from the NSA, are continuously being funneled into this project.

If you thought the rapid advancement of civilian computing was awe-inspiring, what the military and the US government has come up with will rock your world.
11 Mar 2008 ~ 11:50pm muddocktor Colossus/Guardian is alive!!!:eek3::bawling:
12 Mar 2008 ~ 8:44am Qeldroma "Let's play global thermonuclear war."

That city-sized supercomputer from the 70s now resides in your chipsets. Does nVidia makes that too?

You have to wonder about an article that starts with

The most powerful computer known is the brain ....

But then again ... I think that brain belongs to someone I know ....
12 Mar 2008 ~ 11:22am Gate28

Thrax wrote:

How can you take pictures or screenshots of an inhumanly-intelligent network that has had more than fifty years to autonomously develop its obfuscation techniques? In the early days, dozens of scientists were involved with plausibly-deniable/clandestine operations to keep this equipment a secret until the machine was sufficiently powerful to operate covertly of its own accord. Billions of dollars, particularly from the NSA, are continuously being funneled into this project.

If you thought the rapid advancement of civilian computing was awe-inspiring, what the military and the US government has come up with will rock your world.

Sources? I can beleive it if it happened in the 80's, but not the 50's... you need more proof than just crazy conspiracy theories

*looks over his house to see if the Balckhawks are back*
12 Mar 2008 ~ 11:34am Thrax Conspiracy theory? Don't insult me.

Did you know that today's model for TCP/IP, the basic building block of the internet, was created just after World War II? Have you ever wondered why something so complex took <i>so long</i> to reach the end user? It's because the government had other plans for it, and paid academia and private business <i>billions</i> to keep it sequestered.
12 Mar 2008 ~ 11:36am GrayFox

Thrax wrote:

Superintelligent AIs already exist, but are either being kept secret or are (more likely) keeping themselves hidden. The NSA has had city-sized supercomputer arrays since the 1970s. Something's going on. The "Illuminati" conspiracy theories - all based in intelligent, sensible, sane, rational analysis - point to the existence of a scheming super-intelligent AI which, in all likelihood, went live in the 1950s.

Conspiracy Theorist Crackpot or just a bad joke ?
12 Mar 2008 ~ 11:41am Garg

Thrax wrote:

Conspiracy theory? Don't insult me.

Did you know that today's model for TCP/IP, the basic building block of the internet, was created just after World War II? Have you ever wondered why something so complex took so long to reach the end user? It's because the government had other plans for it, and paid academia and private business billions to keep it sequestered.

The ability of the government to keep things secret is vastly overestimated. What they were able to do in the 50s is unlikely to be nearly as successful today. Furthermore, science outside of government facilities or control is far more prolific today. I therefore doubt that clandestine technology is necessarily that much further advanced than what can be mass researched and produced for mass market.
12 Mar 2008 ~ 12:14pm Thrax
12 Mar 2008 ~ 1:35pm Garg Act like you're in on the joke for a second and somebody turns around and says "nu-uh, I had a shield."
12 Mar 2008 ~ 3:31pm Winfrey I thought thrax was just describing the plot line in Deus Ex. Hence my post.