What Do We Do When Machines Start to Think?

April 11, 2016 Phil Data Technology, Podcasts, Transformations, Transition Comments Off on What Do We Do When Machines Start to Think?

Phil and Stephen discuss a major breakthrough in artificial intelligence:

IBM’s resistive computing could massively accelerate AI — and get us closer to Asimov’s Positronic Brain

From the linked story:

Using chips densely packed with these RPU tiles, the researchers claim that, once built, a resistive-computing-based AI system can achieve performance improvements of up to 30,000 times compared with current architectures, all with a power efficiency of 84,000 GigaOps per-second per-watt. If this becomes a reality, we could be on our way to realizing Isaac Asimov’s fantasy vision of the robotic Positronic brain.

And it’s not just Asimov’s robots — Data on Star Trek also had a positronic brain…

If true AI is on its way, we better start unlearning some of our misconceptions about it. Luckily, George Dvorsky is on the case:

Everything You Know About Artificial Intelligence is Wrong

Well, maybe not everything. But then for something this important, we don’t want to be wrong about anything, do we?

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