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I fear for us all in the face of adoreable death. THE END IS NEIGH!!! | |
Wow. I think I'd feel safe if Skynet was controlled by a cat, as they know who their friends are (Cat person here).
Somehow, that only makes me love cats more :P | |
Nice thread title. What was that line about the tinkly ball of death? It would be appropriate here. | |
Cats. They always get you in the end. | |
Well apparently computers will be more intelligent than the human brain. And as humans we can judge whteher if somethging is worthless or not so the computers will judge what data is useless and what ins't and will find us as out of date data and henceforth kill us all! GAH THE CYBERMEN! THEY WILL DELETE US ALL! * becomes drunk bum yelling at everyone * | |
Its simple... we make giant cheezeburgerz... | |
Once again, Sentient Machines=\=the end of the world (or even organic life) They won't kill us unless we try to "kill" them first. Edit: Also, if you're still fearful, keep in mind that the computer is still thinking 100 times slower than the animal who's intelligence that they are comparing it to, which means that for quite a while to come, organics (even the dumb ones) will be able to think circles around any AI that the industry can fabricate. | |
You know what, I don't care what kind of robots they make, so long as I get to play Assassin's creed 2 and DA:O before they destroy the world. | |
Hahahah, that's awesome. Now thet just need to increase their funding by several orders of magnitude, and hey presto, human brain simulator. Or they could go one better, and use PS3s. That way, they should be able to accurately simulate an entity with a
It's a cat brain, not a horse brain. :P | |
Why does everyone always assume Artificial Intelligences will think 'Wahey, I think, therefor I am! LET'S FRY SOME MOTHERFUCKING HUMANS' | |
Wow. It takes a system of supercomputers to simulate the mind of a small animal? About a month ago, someone asked if the human brain could run Crysis on maximum settings. This sorta puts that into perspective. | |
Oh in that case. THE END IS MEOW!!! | |
Oh God, worry. | |
Aaaaand you just made me laugh loud enough to draw looks from my coworkers. Well played, sir. | |
the title for this movie: or... Harry Potter and the Yarn Ball of Doom | |
Least all you have to remember is when Skynet takes over the terminators will be distracted by yawn, laser pointers, balls, rc mice, and will be vunerable everytime they start to lick themselves. | |
After reading this, I opened a tab to comedy website "Cracked," only to find, on the main page, an article titled: "6 Adorable Cat Behaviors With Shockingly Evil Explanations" ...hold me. | |
O... kay... ALL BOW DOWN TO YOUR KITTY MASTERS! | |
If they make a computer that can think as fast as a chimpanzee, maybe then I will start to get anxious. | |
if its a cat supercomputer do you have to unplug it 9 times? | |
I for one welcome our new fluffy overloads... | |
Nerdgasm? Humanity are Gods, or will be, nature will be our bitch, and all will be good. ...Atleast for a while. | |
At IBM AI-lolcat captions you! | |
This pretty neatly demonstrates just how god-damn powerful a brain is, even of smaller mammals. I think people are over-reacting with the whole 'skynet' thing though. I say wait until it proves to be malevolent and can access every other piece of electronic equipment on the planet, AND control them in an equally malevolent manor. This is a pretty groundbreaking simulation, but people need to get a damn grip. Anything even CLOSE to simulating sentience is a long, long way off. | |
The irony here is that with that much power, the thing really would crash if it found itself in a sunbeam. | |
Seriously, knock it off with those Terminator references. Today, we had at least two. God knows if a single week passes without hearing one from the Escapist staff. Now, let's see whether the whole artificial intelligence hubbub is worth all the millions spent on it. | |
Skynet with an anchient Egyptian feel...damn we are fucked! | |
Fool. | |
That article has just made my day :) OT, i think i'll go out and buy a shitload of vacuum cleaners.... | |
Why is it that as soon as someone starts talking about artificial intelligence people start screaming "Skynet!!!11!!one!". I mean geez people, I don't think there is anything inherantly wrong with robots or AI, READ some Issac Asimov, and he's the guy who invented the word "Robot". | |
My cat is a bastard. A furry, adorable, purring, bastard. He knows door knobs are what open doors. When he wants in or out of my room, he stretches up and bats the door knob, looking and me and meowing until I open it. He also likes sleeping on my books and papers when ever I have serious studying to do. | |
Hide your catnip and fluffy balls people. Things just got serious. | |
No, Captain Killjoy, he isn't. He did create the Three Laws of Robotics, but Karel Capek actually coined the term "robot." | |
Oh no! Now it'll try to take over the world for all of our yarn and cat toys! OT: This is a bit confusing. So.. It's a simulated cat brain, but it's not capable of thinking like a cat... Did they just attempt to simulate the hardware without the O/S, or what? | |
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Simulated Cat Brain Heralds the End of the World
As part of the ongoing quest for artificial intelligence, scientists at IBM have built a computer powerful enough to simulate the brain of a cat, which despite their denials is almost certain to lead to the end of life as we know it on this planet.
True artificial intelligence is the holy grail of computer science. It's also nowhere near reality at this point, but as one of the baby steps toward that goal, researchers have built a series of increasingly powerful supercomputers that can simulate some or all of the brain of smaller mammals. The most recent breakthrough from IBM is a system that simulates the cerebral cortex of a cat.
The computer uses 147,456 processors and 144 terabytes of memory, yet still thinks about 100 times slower than a real cat. But the benefit comes from the ability to see how thoughts are formed across the roughly one billion neurons and ten trillion synapses contained in a cat's brain. In one test, scientists observed the computer as it was shown images of corporate logos and determined what they were. Researcher Dharmendra Modha, who called it a "truly unprecedented scale of simulation," said the work is important because it could lead to computers better equipped to handle a wide range of ambiguous problems without a reliance on the "structured data" required by current technology.
Scientists claim that the computer doesn't actually think like a cat, which is of course exactly what you'd expect them to say once it became public knowledge that they'd essentially created Skynet with the brain of a furry, fanged messenger of death that likes to kill things for fun. On the upside, it'll probably spend about 90 percent of its time in standby mode anyway, giving anyone lucky enough to survive the first round of playful kitty-cat Armageddon plenty of time to pull the plug on the thing.
Source: Yahoo! Tech
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