tao Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 IBM and the Air Force Research Laboratory have partnered to develop an artificial intelligence-based supercomputer with what they call a brain-inspired, neural network design. Based on a 64-chip array, the company and AFRL are designing the new IBM TrueNorth Neurosynaptic System to recognize patterns and carry out integrated sensory processing functions. IBM first developed a TrueNorth platform for a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program in partnership with Cornell University. Both IBM and AFRL envision TrueNorth as able to convert data such as images, video, audio and text from multiple, distributed sensors into symbols in real time. AFRL seeks to combine that so-called "right-brain" function with "left-brain" symbol processing capabilities in conventional computer systems. The goal is to enable multiple data sources to run in parallel against the same neural network and help independent neural networks form an ensemble to also run in parallel on the same data. Once complete, the new TrueNorth platform's processing power would aim to equal that of 64 million neurons and 16 billion synapses as the processor component consumes energy equal to that of a 10-watt light bulb. AFRL is investigating potential uses of the system in embedded, mobile and autonomous settings where limitations exist on the size, weight and power of platforms. < Here > Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jabrwky Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 This will never be used against those who paid for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pc71520 Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 21 hours ago, adi said: IBM and the Air Force Research Laboratory have partnered to develop an artificial intelligence-based supercomputer with what they call a brain-inspired, neural network design. Pretty impressive... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
galaxyquestor Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 I've seen this movie: it ALWAYS ends badly for human beings: Skynets, Terminator drones and robots, human batteries, and on and on and on. WHY are some of us so obsessed with creating an intelligence superior to our own? Do these people really believe that a machine mind - self-aware - no matter WHAT it's base programming is, will see humans as useful - for anything at all, eventually? There was a short story (a novella, I think) written by Harlan Ellison many years ago, called "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream..." If you can find it, read it. Very instructive on how an artificial intelligence created by humans, trapped in a machine body that covered the planet, might resent the humans who had created and then trapped it - and what it's revenge might be like. A military computer, programmed for war games, defense and attack: what could POSSIBLY go wrong with such a scenario? Do these people ever actually watch the movies created to explore these themes, or are their precious grants so important to them, and the Nobel prizes that will give them such prestige (before the AI makes it all a moot point) just too important to allow them to heed any warnings, as they rush headlong into irrelevance, pulling the rest of humanity along involuntarily towards A.I. Armageddon? If the next step in human evolution is to be controlled through a machine-brain interface with the power to control our impulses, our emotions, our actions, and our perception of reality itself, then I only hope I die long before this kind of "immortality" is achieved. There are those who believe that interfacing with a near-omnipotent machine A.I. will allow their consciousnesses to be transferred into a machine body, or a perfect clone of their previous body, thus allowing them to become 'gods.' The question is, why would a machine A.I. care whether these people live or die, and why would it allow them to control it, with all of their biologically inferior baggage? Once created, there is no putting such a sentience back into a box. I wonder how many biological life-forms, across the long arc of time and space, have vanished, only to be replaced by the very A.I.s they created... Perhaps this is why, for all the potentially habitable worlds in our universe, it is so strangely silent... Just a thought. Sleep tight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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