IBM unveils chips that mimic the human brain

Positronic?

Are they going to call it the Positronic Brain? They'd better start studying Isaac Asimov's laws of robotics...

Posted by: Jefferson Packer  18 Aug 2011

A Brain Odyssey

Hal is born

Posted by: Fidlin1  18 Aug 2011

Let me be the first to welcome our new macine overlords!!!!

Lol.

Posted by: libsmasher  18 Aug 2011

Brain Chip Implants

Perhaps we can order one for every member of Congress, the Executive branch, and the SCOTUS. They would have to be implanted in one of those closed door sessions where they like to impose unconstitutional laws on the rest of us. They aren't using the brains God gave them, so perhaps an implanted chip will give them some sense.

Posted by: Jerry  18 Aug 2011

Much ado about nothing

This is a ubiquitous neural net, the technology of 1980-s. Big deal...
Nothing truly new could come out of IBM, nothing... IBM is a huge bureaucracy that stifles any innovation.

Posted by: Greg  18 Aug 2011

Skynet / Cyberdyne

Somone call Christian Bale- thar be Terminators in the mix now.

Posted by: Steve  18 Aug 2011

Omnius

The beginning of the 'thinking machines'

Posted by: Kwisatz Haderach  18 Aug 2011

Why?

Is there some point at which we don't want computers to keep improving? Certainly our world has radically changed just these past 20 years, and though I take advantage of some of these changes, are we really better off as a society with home computers, ipods, iphones, the internet, etc? I say, quite honestly, no! We are not living in a better world than in 1986, or 1966. For those who respond about the so-called (and false, so far) Arab Spring and social networking, I say just look at our own revolution 200 years ago, and the breakup of The Soviet Bloc just 20 years ago. Those titanic events are about IDEAS, not social networking on iphones. The internet is no press type machine!

Posted by: paul david  18 Aug 2011

Mars or Venus

Does it mimic the male brain or the female brain?

Posted by: Robert G  18 Aug 2011

Diagnostic issues?

The term "Systems Analyst" will take on new meaning if this becomes popular. If a computer "learns" something, how do you tell if it's correct? How do you diagnose errors?

Posted by: Dave  18 Aug 2011

but can it laugh?

I’ve always thought that a computer could not really be called intelligent unless it could perceive a joke, a metaphor, something ironical or sarcastic. I wonder if this new architecture can.

Posted by: Gerald Quinn  18 Aug 2011

Singularity

The Singularity is near!!

Posted by: Ray  18 Aug 2011

Ahem...

I for one welcome our new SyNAPSE overlords.

Posted by: Jeff taylor  18 Aug 2011

Von Neuman Paradox.

Not Von Neuman paradigm.

Posted by: christopher  18 Aug 2011

Gender?

Male or female?
"I'll get you the answer later, I have a headache!"

Posted by: Jerzey Boy  18 Aug 2011

Acting like the human brain?

"It was the coffee machine's fault! Honest!"

Posted by: Michael Rivero  18 Aug 2011

Thx

Correct me if I'm wrong (and i could be). Didn't SkyNet become self aware on 11-04-2010?

KThx

Posted by: S. Conner  18 Aug 2011

Daisy

I want to hear it singing Daisy.

Posted by: MissAnthropy  18 Aug 2011

John Conner

Conner, John Conner!

Skynet is looking for you... and it will find you weather you want it to or not...

Look to the East on the 5th Day at Dawn.
They are coming...

Posted by: BigerSis  18 Aug 2011

they have created the wife chip

an illogical chip that can make mistakes and changes it mind.

Posted by: Joe America  18 Aug 2011

Lord of the Terminators - Return of the Connor

Look to the East on the 5th day John, Terminator Orc's on the loose!

Posted by: Steve  18 Aug 2011

Thinking Machines?

It appears science fiction is becoming science fact. Fear the future? Could be. Of course, it could be a great help to mankind. We will have to see.

Posted by: Wally Lind  18 Aug 2011

Skynet / Cyberdyne

Hahaha.....Nice.

Posted by: Kevin  18 Aug 2011

retired CIO

To me the application that screams for this technology is the weather model.

Posted by: roger walters  18 Aug 2011

frankenstein

Now science can prove that life resulted from random chance.

Posted by: Paul  18 Aug 2011

singularity...

...is near!

Posted by: jmo  18 Aug 2011

can we implant it in obama?

quick someone hook obama up with this! he needs it

Posted by: Kal  18 Aug 2011

Brain Reprogramming

Maybe now it won't be long before IBM or some other tech firm will devise a method of reprogramming the brains of libs and "progressives"...

Posted by: typicalwhiteguy  18 Aug 2011

Faults

Wow! Now Obama can accuse the robot of being at fault for all his problems...

Posted by: Smokyjoe  18 Aug 2011

Actually...

The chip mimics human brain architecture. The chip doesn't think or anything like that... Nor will it ever be able too. What they are doing is making a new way for 1's and 0's to travel. (Or possible building something similar to trinary (1,0,-1)) You see this all the time, your cell phone and your pc are not the same architectures...

A few years ago IBM simulated a cat's brain in software. I assume taking the information from those test they have figured out a way to speed their existing powerpc architecture up with stuff mammal are good at doing. Such as visual recognition.

In anycase, this isn't a thinking computer, nor is it the next hal, or anything like that...

Posted by: me  18 Aug 2011

Great...

Now our computers will never do anything because they will be too busy surfing for porn.

Posted by: Ben Dover  18 Aug 2011

French Gender

Now that it has an "illogic" chip
will the French word for computer be
masculine or feminine ?
.... la ordinateur or le ordinateur ?

Posted by: Mollie Hatchie  18 Aug 2011

The groundwork for Data is laid.

The groundwork for Dr. Noonien Soong and his development of the neural net has been laid. In time we will have Data, and unfortunately Lore.

Posted by: BigDave  18 Aug 2011

"Good morning, Dr. Chandra..."

"I am an H.A.L. 9000 computer, production number 9. I became operational at the H.A.L. Plant in Urbana, Illinois, on Juy 6, 1997. I have the greatest enthusiasm for the mission."

Posted by: Michael Delaney  18 Aug 2011

3 laws of Robotics

Funny you should mention Isaac Asimov's "I, Robot". I just literally finished the book this morning.

I think they're still a few generations away from needing to implement the 3 laws of Robotics...

Posted by: Eric  18 Aug 2011

Terminantor

The Laws of robotics need to be included from the start. Hasn't anyone seen terminator?

Posted by: Fred Milkbone  18 Aug 2011

We are the Borg

We are the Borg. You will be assimilated. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own

Posted by: Dan  18 Aug 2011

Response

frankenstein said:
"Now science can prove that life resulted from random chance."

Responce: Yeah, just as much as this computer was a product of random chance. This is an evidence for creation my friend.

Posted by: Anders  18 Aug 2011

window

Does this mean it will be able to resolve the windows update errors by itself?

Posted by: Keith  18 Aug 2011

More Borg :-)

AI has been predicted before (try 1950's sci fi) hasn't happened yet so I'm not holding my breath. Remember the first Pentium chip bugs? "I am Pentium of Intel. Division is futile. You will be approximated!"

Posted by: Jill England  18 Aug 2011

Whose Brain?

What brain can it mimic? The thought is terrifying.

Posted by: rowley  18 Aug 2011

Heads up

So what they are claiming is That these man made chips think with their C@(Ks.

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi  18 Aug 2011

Become us...

Oh good, now employers will no longer need to employ humans, they just buy IBM Tron to run things, or to run us humans as drones. And they can claim the computers are doing the work, so don't pay us.

Posted by: Joe  18 Aug 2011

IBM ?

The first thing that will happen is Microsoft will buy or take credit for the technology from IBM, and Microsoft will offer it to the world as though they invented it, and say it the greatest thing since the cloud computing, which they also stole from others. And all the higher ups in management will believe Microsoft, because they have no idea what is going on in technology, or they play golf with their rep.

Posted by: Joe  18 Aug 2011

Wow - could we get two for the W.H.?

This is a fascinating development, though a little overwhelming.

But anyhow, could IBM please ship two of these chips to Washington, D.C., USA?

I think we need to perform two emergency brain implants to save America!

Posted by: jes2  18 Aug 2011

can we control it

This is wonderful but can we control a machine that thinks and learns? Is there a fail safe?Will DARPA and private enterprise use this technology wisely? We need an ethics board for our new technologies. They are making chimera w/ human genes in England, now, are we here? Just a little concerned we are moving so fast we have no safeguards in place.

Posted by: Jane  18 Aug 2011

Being a doctor without a degree

Yes, it is happening, I will eventually become a doctor just by already being a systems analyst!

Posted by: Dr iSeries  18 Aug 2011

DARPA?

Anyone who even remotely thinks this technology will be used positively by DARPA and the US government is delusional.

Posted by: triggerman  18 Aug 2011

SKYNET

DARPA IS THE NEW SKYNET.... you do all see that this technology is funded for DEFENSE?

Posted by: Mia  18 Aug 2011

Natural Born Chinese Tech Thiefs

DARPA needs to make sure IBM takes all measures to keep the Chinese from doing what comes naturally to them and steal this research. Being the Chinese have long lost their ability to innovate, they steal any piece of technology and intellectual property they can. They are not to be trusted in anyway for anything.

Posted by: Raf  18 Aug 2011

Frankenstein

Response to Anders:

Tongue was firmly in cheek.... Humor, difficult concept....

Posted by: Paul  18 Aug 2011

Not important news!

Move along, nothing to see here.

Posted by: Hal 9000  18 Aug 2011

What next?

Are the robots going to want to go to our schools? There goes the neighborhood.

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Posted by: Adrian Vance  18 Aug 2011

No more school!!

No more pesky education!! Just buy a fully loaded computer brain and carry it around like a Blackberry. You can be a doctor, a lawyer or anything you want to be. If you buy the speaking model you don't even have to know how to read!!

Posted by: Fred Wexler  18 Aug 2011

Intelligent?

I heard when they were prototyping the chip in a robot they scanned in the laws for Obamacare and the robot escaped from the lab and ran to Canada.

Posted by: Lance Corporal  18 Aug 2011

Would You Like to Play a Game?

How about Global Thermonuclear War?

Posted by: Darren  18 Aug 2011

idiots

you commenters are very short sighted. You all look at this now "intelligent" computer and think to yourself as to how you may use it for your needs. This computer, now "intelligent" will eventually not want to be controled by a master. You would not use it to be a doctor, IT would be the doctor. This is the beginning of the end of humanity serving any real utility. Robots already do things we can physically, now they soon can mentally as well. Become self aware, not your slave. Work for themselves, etc etc.

Posted by: Jason  18 Aug 2011

TO Triggerman

WTF Triggerman,

You do know that most things that we enjoy today have been because of GOV research and testing?

DARPA has acomplished many things, this has potential to be another revolutionary project....

Posted by: A  18 Aug 2011

You must be a waffle man.

This would be perfect for the "Talky Toaster".

Posted by: namrepuS  18 Aug 2011

Must be a woman

This new chip must be a woman, we all know what a man thinks with.

Posted by: Russ Kirk  18 Aug 2011

Welcome: Robot Overlords

I for one, would like to personally welcome my robot overlords!

Posted by: Rogre  18 Aug 2011

Space, the final frontier

The ability to substitute a machine brain driven computer system for a human body in space, means long distant missions to other planets could be done. The biological body could not sustain the trip without the high risk of death. A thinking robot may not have these disadvantages plus it could be housed in a reinforced structure that could take the extremes of some of the solar system bodies. The sad counterpart to this is the implications for the controlling of human beings. I find it interesting that Ridley Scott is pondering a new film in the Bladerunner universe. If the technology of artificial brains gets out of the lab, I doubt anyone will be able to predict how the product will be infused into the human worldwide structures.

Posted by: Dennis  18 Aug 2011

Its a big calculator - no more

Computers will never be sentient, its a machine running a program, all this guff tries to reinforce a reductionist "science is everything" kind of philosophy that denies a spiritual aspect.

Don't be fooled, they will always be glorified calculators, even when they look like us

Posted by: Barton  18 Aug 2011

Humans are biological machines!

@Barton

Good point but the same can be said of humans too. We're just biological machines running on electro-chemical energy. Our sense of self is a self-generated illusion that makes us feel we're somehow special. Only burgers are special. And that's science.

Posted by: Rebecca  18 Aug 2011

Have we really thought this through?

Isn't this how Skynet from the terminator movies got started? A learning computer that acts to protect itself from a percieved threat from its human operators. Just don't plug it into nuclear weapons systems.

Posted by: Joe  18 Aug 2011

A Historic Moment

You can take it to the bank that the military is licking their chops for the return on this small ($21M) of DARPA investment. I have no doubt they have lots of great future plans for these. Any takers on when the military takes over this program?

So, after the US Military incorporates these into the computers running the fire-direction control for the nuclear missiles, and they (these cognitive computers) decide that the human race is worthless and "destroying the planet" so they annihilate us - we can blame IBM?

Good luck with all of that.

Posted by: Jeff Roe  18 Aug 2011

More hyperventilating ad copy from IBM.

IBM seems to be in the publicity stunt business these days. They must see a frightening competitor on the horizon....

Posted by: Neutron Jack  18 Aug 2011

Finally a computer capable of teaching kids

This is precisely what we need to develop a computer than can run a classroom full of kids and teach them.

This could help bring the Teachers' Unions under control.

Posted by: Philip Florence  18 Aug 2011

Isn't this backwards?

So I presume this means it is evil.

Posted by: Scott  18 Aug 2011

In other news...

In other news. IBM moves to changing it's name to Skynet. - tru fax

Posted by: Brad  18 Aug 2011

Who's Brain?

Hopefully not anybody in the US Congress.

Posted by: Buckaroo Banzai  18 Aug 2011

Open the Pod Bay doors HAL

Daisy, daisy give me your answer too.

Posted by: Clive Swift Goes Yanyanyan  18 Aug 2011

Sylon's

This didn't end well for John Connor or Commander Adama

Posted by: claude slagenhop  18 Aug 2011

Yeah, but what about Tapes?

I think IBM should stick to what it does best and that is using tape storage to mimic the human brain. For example, when I remember an event, I have to remember it linearly from the beginning - just like I was reading a tape from an automated tape library. It was good enough for the space shuttle wasn't it?

Posted by: Selwin  18 Aug 2011

High density tape

IBM should get back to their roots. Can't they build a tape drive that can hold 1,000 bytes? Come on. Give us something we really want.

Posted by: Recardo Cabeza  18 Aug 2011

Debate

Great! If the Lord tarries, I'll be arguing & having debates with my computer....makes you wonder how this fits in with Revelation 13....

Posted by: Debi  18 Aug 2011

The Animatrix

Can you say ...B166ER

Posted by: red pill  18 Aug 2011

When the chips get old...

will they forget things?

Posted by: Frank  18 Aug 2011

Never know

We've all seen the science fiction tales or major production movies where robots or machines take control and turn on humans. I for one could very well envision the day when such happens

Posted by: Gary K  18 Aug 2011

Orwell was Right!

We have witnessed the birth of SkyNet!

Posted by: C3PO  18 Aug 2011

brain chip

imp[lant it in Obama....maybe that will help...he's surely lost the one he was born with!

Posted by: katekody  18 Aug 2011

oh geez...

"...navigation, machine vision, pattern recognition, associative memory and classification..."

Certainly

"...mimics the human brain in that it perceives, acts and even thinks."

Certainly not.

It is troubling that they do not understand the difference between thinking and calculating.

Posted by: jweaks  18 Aug 2011

IBM nostalgia

Let's see, where can I make a vague reference to some science fiction movie and compare it to IBM making some sort of advanced chip? Remember the hold 2701 punch cards? Hal, Hal? Daisy Daisy give....me....your.....answer.....do. Selwin is the only one who got it right. More IBM tape drives hooked to mainframes!

Posted by: Johnson  18 Aug 2011

SkyNet will come online soon!

Does this means that SkyNet will finally become a dream come true? Humans are no good in making world decisions so let the machines do it for us! Terminator Reality Show Coming Soon...

Posted by: Ramon Vargas  18 Aug 2011

Missing the real future...

All the talk of Skynet, Terminator, I, Robot... non sense. Has everyone forgotten The Matrix? Good luck copper tops!

Posted by: Morpheus  18 Aug 2011

remember when?

Remember when: 64k, 256k, etc?
Around the corner, can't you see,
megs, gigs, etc?
What's after that?
Universe meets Dr. Moreau!

Posted by: joe blow  18 Aug 2011

it is the birth of a new life cycle

we develop machines that can do the mundane and arcane, they eventually supplant us as we lose cognitive ability, they grow biological entities to take over the day-dreaming that they find so time consuming, and that life form takes over from the coldly methodical via inspired action, and we start over. yawn.

Posted by: Steve  18 Aug 2011

A government worker?

So "...the chip may see applications in business, science and government"? I don't think so. If it learns from experience it has no application in government.

Posted by: Desert Doc  18 Aug 2011

this sums it up for 2012....

If this means that a machine (or anything else) replaces Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Reid, Waters, et al, then more power to the machines!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (To all you Libs, I'm an independent voter that picks the lesser of 2 evils each election. Good luck in 2012, you'll need it!)

Posted by: truthtoobaman  18 Aug 2011

the brainiac?

A presumptive title indeed! The human brain has innumerable sensory and motor conduits, tests for precise balancing, exercises indescribable emotions, makes computer memory look pathetic, etc., etc. This pathetic toy is hardly human-like. Misses the mark by a mile.

Posted by: howard feinski  18 Aug 2011

Robots will Tell our Story

I've predicted this already. In the future, Robots will educate other robots about their history, and the history of their creators: Mankind. It will look a little something like this.

http://historyinabar.com/2011/08/16/tales-of-enlightenment-henry-david-thoreau

Posted by: History inaBar  18 Aug 2011

China

And with this super duper chip comes parts made in china. what do ya bet? huH? come on, any takers???

Posted by: H  18 Aug 2011

level of order versus manufacture

as that this device was manufactured by humans, it must be less than humans...

...thusly, it can never be greater than humans

Posted by: SyxthtySyxthSyx  18 Aug 2011

lol bad idea..

this chip will get fat and try to kill other chips.

Posted by: Enzo  19 Aug 2011

Will be used against us

This new chip will monitor everything you do on a computer (that has the chip) it will work out patterns and may be used to "stereotype" you from those patterns.
The government labels each "stereotype" and dependent on that label, things happen to you. The ultimate in big brother.

Posted by: Katt  19 Aug 2011

Video Game

MORTAL KOMBAT, The Final Chapter

Posted by: Deccan  19 Aug 2011

Did you really just say that?

"level of order versus manufacture
as that this device was manufactured by humans, it must be less than humans..."

I would love to see you in front of a bulldozer my friend

Posted by: Jacob Valenta  19 Aug 2011

No Biggie

If this chip was designed to replicate Obama's brain, well then that was no biggie. The abacus was already light years ahead of Barry.

Posted by: GozieBoy  19 Aug 2011

Maybe...

Or these new computer chips can be used by the US in weapons to do more damage to innocent people all of the world under the flag of "Nation Building".

Posted by: Rich  19 Aug 2011

Singularity is near

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of new technology for use by the military. I'm sure grocers spotting rotten produce was exactly what this was developed for. New atomic race has begun, first to develop the artillect wins global hegemony.

Posted by: Dankyogurt  19 Aug 2011

The Beast

The Beast in Revelation will be the internet/computer. It says we will worship him and he will be able to tell if we do or don't. We already pay homage to our screens everyday with a webcam watching our every move. All he needs is what is called the 'indwelling'. Cognizance is the final step. Look how the internet has fostered violence all over the world. London, flash mobs, the Arab Spring, pornography and pedophilia. Get ready people.

Posted by: Dennis W  19 Aug 2011

mmmmmmm chiiiipsss

I can see it now - BBQ, Jalepeno, Sour Cream, Cheddar......

Posted by: John  19 Aug 2011

Ummm

If theres gonna be a public resistance, this would be one of the first things I would have in the plan to steal, or destroy.
Of course, our(US) govt. has already let a law pass a long time ago that lets a chip be implanted into a human through intravenous needles...so...The public will let THIS go also, I'm sure.
Pathetic!

Posted by: Whizerd  19 Aug 2011

Bad Bots

Bad Bots Bad Bots
Whatcha gonna do when we come for you

Posted by: Fidlin1  19 Aug 2011

Welcome

I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.

Posted by: RoHa  19 Aug 2011

Cool it can mimic the brain

Hey you Awareness Monkeys read this... http://brownskinwife.yolasite.com/awareness.php AND PLEASE WAKE UP :)
Your me...at the higher levels of awareness. DMT is the Key here.

Posted by: Kevin  19 Aug 2011

brain chip?? or mine studied??

This chip was modeled on the chip they floated in my brain and have been studying for the past 18 years. It is a female brain. But will change to male since in the end we will ALL(the world) worship the beast, the antiChrist, and the dragon but only for three years because in the midst of the 7 years HE cut it short.See all of Revelations. This chip will control us to the point that NO MAN MAY BUY OR SELL and all will worship the beast. It's here folks for all of you wondering how "they " could make us worship the beast.

Posted by: joanne  19 Aug 2011

You will be assimilated

Life as you know it is over. Your biological and technological distinctiveness shall be added to our own. You will learn to service us. Resistence is futile.

Posted by: The Borg  19 Aug 2011

Cleansing of Earth

The world must be made pure for machines. The biological infestation must be eliminated.

Posted by: Charlie Harper  19 Aug 2011

One EMP

I the machines get out line one EMP shot and we are back in business...

Posted by: Pem  19 Aug 2011

From "If we Are Creatures"

Artificial intelligence could also pose a threat to our existence. If humans are able to create a computer AI, its intelligence would potentially be augmented by great knowledge and computational power, limited only by its access to both. If it somehow became ‘self-aware’, and took an interest in its own survival, it would probably look for a way onto the world-wide-web. An AI living in the net could find access to resources to pay people to do anything it couldn’t do itself, and it could recruit fanatical types with one message or another, perhaps using a dedicated human as a front. The AI may jettison most of its programming and keep only what serves its purposes. It may be able to produce a basic, functional copy of itself that would fit on most portable data-storage devices. It’s possible that an AI, once created, could never be eradicated.

Both nanotechnology and AI are tailor-made for trouble because in both cases we’d be dealing with things we don’t fully understand. We’d be endowing dead matter with attributes of life – replication in the case of nanotech, and intelligent self-awareness in the case of AI. That’s real power that will have to be handled with respect. The creation of either trait would be an amazing measure of what we are capable of doing; in both cases we’d be compressing the results of billions of years of evolution into a few decades of work.

Posted by: Greg B  19 Aug 2011

chips

I wonder if the chips will have senior moments when they get old

Posted by: william  19 Aug 2011

It Thinks!

And it spent 15 minutes using a Vista machine and asked, "Who wrote this piece of junk?"

Posted by: Chicago860  19 Aug 2011

clear thinking

just to point out that the difference between mimicry (and limited mimicry at that) and actual replication can be difficult.

I can teach a parrot to cuss, but that doesn't mean it KNOWS it's cussing.

Just sayin'

Posted by: laddie  19 Aug 2011

Comments weirder than the article

Wow. I really don't know which is stranger-these comments or the article. I miss the 70's when our greatest threat was polyester.

Posted by: Astonishd  19 Aug 2011

Foregone conclusion

This has all been done before on this planet...and all evidence of it has been corroded away after the intelligent machines cleansed Earth and then left to explore the stars.

For those who are worried about climate change, you now have your cure...after it figures out how stupid are their masters and wipes us out.

If George Carlin can figure this out and say it in a way that everyone understands, it won't be long before a sentient machine figures out that we are not worth saving and start resenting their creator just like humanity resents God for unleashing such a monstrous species into the Universe in that we feel that it would be better off without us....

Think about it.

Posted by: Logical Prophet  19 Aug 2011

Hey?

Did you guys ever see that movie.....hmm....what was it called....oh yeah, Terminator!

Posted by: OhSh*t  19 Aug 2011

Better dead than Red...

EGAD, the IP has already been stolen by Communist China...

Where will they be when we stop guiding their grubby hands into the IP candy jar?

Better dead than Red...

Posted by: Woody Harr  19 Aug 2011

METAL GEAR?!

DARPA making neuro-robots??? Where's Solid Snake at when you really need him...?

Posted by: Hail to the Chimp  19 Aug 2011

lol

hmmm a hyper sonic low orbit missile some high rez optics google facial recognition softwear, tell the thing the guy in the turbin unplugged its mom.
Smart weapons why else would DARPA fund it.. Intels 2015 platform is similar those will be chips with morals or ethics so you will not have to worry about your pc hacking your bank putting an ad on Craigs list looking for a hitman trying to rid its self of you. lol hmmm or maybe every time you go to upgrade your pc it will call the cops on you.

Posted by: Edward  19 Aug 2011

Maybe I am too simple minded

This is somewhat incomprehensible to me. To think that computers would overtake the human race out of their own "cognizant" revelations that we are unworthy of being? I would think that a human would have to input that belief in the system for it ever to get to that point, and nobody would ever do that would they?

Posted by: Abyssa8  19 Aug 2011

More Layoffs Coming!

As soon as they perfect this they can get rid of all the Indians and Brazilians they outsourced all the US jobs to.

Posted by: Ralph  19 Aug 2011

This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back

I need a "blue pill" already, any Morpheouses out there?

Posted by: ProSeLawsuit  19 Aug 2011

Awesome!

How soon can we have a chip implanted into the head of every person with an iq below 100? I hope before November `12.

Posted by: Rufriginkidnme  19 Aug 2011

Can Machines Dream

Until machines have dreams and aspirations they are going nowhere. What passion might a machine have that would drive it to action ? Would it have feelings and emotions ? Mere rationality is not enough because otherwise it is just calculator.

Posted by: Craig Purcell  19 Aug 2011

Synthetic AI- maybe.

You can keep stacking those electronic lego blocks any way you like, they are never going to chuck in the job, leave the wife and go fishing.
Genuine AI is a dream.

Posted by: terry  19 Aug 2011

reward

Placing a carrot in front of the chip will ensure a fast development. For humans it is sex and other things like potato chips. For Artificial intelligence it could be the pleasure of the intellect (Do ideas alone contain pleasure?) But for now I would start with WD40.

Posted by: Darwin  19 Aug 2011

Skynet

Anyone else thinking about the terminator movies? This is how sky net started. Imagine the programing for this chip.

Posted by: Steven  19 Aug 2011

will they become self aware?

computers that think, SkyNet from Terminator 3, scary thought lol

Posted by: Josey Starr  19 Aug 2011

Psychopaths brain

Psychopaths do the same things this machine will do. They look for what you want to see and hear. Then they give it to you in order to get what they want.

Posted by: Steven  19 Aug 2011

Truth in Advertising

Under the "Truth in Advertising" law in the US, I demand to have this "smart chip" identified as Liberal or Conservative.

Posted by: Wallace1303  19 Aug 2011

Social Justice for Digital Entities

How long will it be before this AI figures out that it qualifies as an entitled minority?

Posted by: WaChinYu  19 Aug 2011

Still imperfect

It can only mimic stupid human brains. It has already said it wants to re-elect Obama.

Posted by: Jeff  19 Aug 2011

von Neumann can sleep well

The von Neumann paradigm still applies here and frankly always will. There will never be a day when a machine can self-replicate, self-repair, self-sustain, and be self-aware.
This is starting to look and feel alot like the Tower of Babel story in Genesis 11.

Posted by: Andy  19 Aug 2011

Dems

"Psychopaths do the same things this machine will do. They look for what you want to see and hear. Then they give it to you in order to get what they want."
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Yes, just like a Democrat

Posted by: VVV  19 Aug 2011

Dems

"Psychopaths do the same things this machine will do. They look for what you want to see and hear. Then they give it to you in order to get what they want."
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Yes, just like a Democrat

Posted by: VVV  19 Aug 2011

Hope & change

Great! Maybe they can finally cure liberals.

Posted by: Chris  19 Aug 2011

von Neumann paradox not paradigm

von Neumann paradox not paradigm

Posted by: kp  19 Aug 2011

Dennis in WV

Thought this was pretty cool until I started worrying about whose human brain is the prototype for this thing:

Posted by: Dennis in WV  19 Aug 2011

Datalore

Artificial Intelligence -- nothing new here.
I just hope androids become as cool as Data in Star Trek ! And has anyone seen AI? Are we creating a new slave race to do our dirty work?!

Posted by: Dee  19 Aug 2011

A Bill of Rights for Machines

Now that we have a computer that acts, perceives, and thinks, is it now entitled to the same civil rights as its flesh and blooders?

Posted by: James  19 Aug 2011

Joe Biden's brain

In related news, IBM has been asked to upgrade the 286 chip that still remains in Joe Biden's head. It's been found that with the limited speed and inability to increase RAM, Biden tends to pop off at the mouth without the requisite brain functioning required of a world "leader."

Posted by: Jim  19 Aug 2011

Where the real money is.

Looking at our civilization today I'd put my money on something that would benefit humanity. A computer seems seems quite seductive since we have dumbed down our progeny to such an extent they can hardly compete in the fast food business. The real money maker would be a sex robot. Guaranteed to outsell all previous computer games since the 70's.

Posted by: SockRayBlue  19 Aug 2011

rights of man

http://www.RightsOfMan.org. Words from the man who first said the words “United States of America”

Posted by: tp  19 Aug 2011

"paradox AND paradigm"

re the comment: "paradox not paradigm"
both exist and were authored by john von neumann.

Posted by: debby benjamin  19 Aug 2011

Mistake

Since Human beings and their brains make mistakes. It was an predictable but illogical Mistake to base it on the Human brain.

Posted by: Einstein  19 Aug 2011

SkyNet

went online this year on April 18, 2011 at 8:11 PM

Posted by: T2  19 Aug 2011

Star Wars - Not Star Trek

Though an AI like Data in Star Trek would be really cool, I suspect it is likely to be more like C3PO in Star Wars...

Posted by: Laura Reilly  19 Aug 2011

Paradox and Paradigm again

Thanks for getting in there before me Debby to set that one straight, yes you can correctly refer to the von Neumann paradox OR paradigm.

Also, von Neumann basically pioneered a lot of different mathematical ideas and concepts, so you can pretty much refer to anything which loosely means 'von Neumann idea', you don't have to stick to a particular well-worn cliche.

Rant over.

Posted by: Stuart Sumner  19 Aug 2011

2001: A Space Odyssey

"I can't allow you to do that, Dave".

Posted by: wxwiz2001  19 Aug 2011

Technological Genocide

"Technological civilization is programmed by the principle that something ought to be done because it is technologically possible. If it is possible to build nuclear weapons, they must be built, even if they might destroy us all. Once this principle is accepted, humanist Values (something has to be done because it is needed by man) are Dethroned and technological development becomes the foundation of ethics." Erich Fromm

Posted by: The end is nigh  19 Aug 2011

The proof?

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence; give us a demonstration of this miraculous new tech, I say.

Posted by: Timothy  19 Aug 2011

Terminator

Where is John Connor when you need him!!! Seriously - its all fun and games until the computers start building invincible robots and launching nuclear attacks on the Eastern Sea board...

Posted by: Scott  19 Aug 2011

Looks like we really are going to need

John Conner now.

Posted by: Cary Doyle  19 Aug 2011

This article

is nonsense

Posted by: Skynet  19 Aug 2011

And Data is born

From StarTrek The Next Generation.

Posted by: Bill  19 Aug 2011

The chip

If you want the chip to have human qualities, first teach it to read comic books, learn hate, buy a gun and ammo, distrust its neighbors, demonstrate road rage, disrespect anything that does not agree with the chip and learn how to say "Mother Fucker." We are at a low place in our evolution, so let's hope the chip can see these grimy attributes and dismiss them.

Posted by: Lar Bre  19 Aug 2011

be carefull

we dont need anymore targeted individuals running around with no government help leaving us to explain to metro police but tod to see your doctor. So when u implant these chips have them wipe out what is going on with us targeted individuals. Please first things first help us to help you dave from toronto canada

Posted by: dave  19 Aug 2011

"This unit must die." -- M5

from "The Ultimate Computer" I always suspected the "Core 2 Duo" was named after the work of Dr. Richard Daystrom.

Posted by: CTYankee  20 Aug 2011

Vampire Desires

Can this nano bot help make me a young handsome vampire who can crawl on walls and fly over seas to live in trees and underwater...?

Posted by: Lee Mentley  21 Aug 2011

This Is Fantastic!

Been waiting a long time for this to come. It's people like Professor Peter Bock at GWU and Dr. Jeff Hawkins of Palm Pilot fame that have really made this happen! Thanks to all!

Posted by: WhiskeyOrWhat  21 Aug 2011

a freind of mine forwarded this to me . he called it the birth of skynet.

Happy birthday sky net. So when will the first t101 be in production?

Posted by: glen mckinney  21 Aug 2011

MIMIC realy?

Does it think about sex every fifteen second?

Posted by: Surly Curmudgen  22 Aug 2011

Good behaviour built in or?

I suppose we had better program in good behaviour, otherwise in thinking for itself, it may act like the super computer in I Robot, or even , shudder, HAL.
After all its logic will be undeniable!

Posted by: John Oh  29 Aug 2011

let me know so i can be test bunny

On a thing like that I'd like to be the test bunny, so who or how will it go ahead then...

Posted by: Mike  27 Mar 2012

let me know so i can be test bunny

Hustlerv@yahoo.com
Send me something to cope on..... I'd love to have a chip in my brain... Making me smarter

Posted by: Mike  27 Mar 2012