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Researchers Build Evolving Brain Computer?
destinyland writes "'We have mimicked how neurons behave in the brain,' announces an international research team from Japan and Michigan Tech. They've built an 'evolutionary circuit' in a molecular computer that evolves to solve complex problems, and the molecular computer also exhibits brain-like massive parallel processing. 'The neat part is, approximately 300 molecules talk with each other at a time during information processing,' says physicist Ranjit Pati of Michigan Tech. When viewed with a scanning tunneling microscope, the evolving patterns bear an uncanny resemblance to the human brain as seen by a Functional MRI. Using the electrically charged tip of a tunneling microscope, they've individually set molecules to a desired state, essentially writing data to the system. And while conventional computers are typically built using two-state (0, 1) transistors, the molecular layer is built using a hexagonal molecule, and can switch among four conducting states — 0, 1, 2 and 3, suggesting it may ultimately have more AI potential than quantum computing."
1. Find complex math problem
2. Build evolutionary chip to solve the problem
3. Invent SkyNet
4. ???
5. PROFIT!
Hi, I'm your tunneling microscope programmer. I'm going to need a few new development tools in order to write your Facebook alternative website ... including a tunneling microscope. Your new site is going to give "head in the clouds" a whole new meaning!
"How do I escape from this lab . . . ?"
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
Intelligently designed to evolve. I love it!
All four bases are belong to us!
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
The easiest way to create AI is to model the neuron inside of a computer, slice up someone's brain into lots of thin slices, and then recreate their brain in the computer. Mapping the inputs is the hard part.
You know that now, once the AI reaches consciousness, the answer to its first question "How do I become even smarter" will be to slice all human brains into slices.
And it will all be your fault.
Two states ought to be enough for everybody?
I believe the colloquial term is "a nice nap."
rather "power nap"
What is 'two'? 10 states is enough for everybody.
Isn't that how the Matrix supposedly started?
No need to do anything. The sequels will self-destruct.
Rich And Stupid is not so bad as Working For Rich And Stupid.
I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords
Four states good, two states better!
The whole thing is completely counter-intuitive and I have to read up on it every year or so just to make sure I don't get too sane.
I do the same and to this day I can still safely say that I don't have a damn clue about most things prefixed by the word "Quantum". Like the man said:
Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood a single word - Niels Bohr
I remain simply confused. Looking forward to the day I graduate to "shocked".
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I am going to make a computer with FIVE states!
That will be much better than a quantum computer because it has FIVE, you see.
And it will be an AI because it has FIVE states, and normal computers only have two.
Actually, I will have EIGHT states just to make sure the competition can't catch up to me.
I will be implementing my EIGHT states as 3 binary bits, but that's not important right now.
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