I would choose Margaret Thatcher over Putin any day.
Also, exporting oil seems to work fine for Norway and Canada without turning them into aggressive dictatorships. I agree that oil money corrupts, but when there is a developed society in place, it's not too bad.
Exactly. It was passed for political reasons when the resource market was completely different. Now both the market and the political situation has changed, and it makes sense to lift the ban or work around it ASAP. Then it will be easier to negotiate / impose sanctions upon authoritative regimes like Russia.
Regardless of the ecological effects of our chemical energy dependency and the grey-area nature of this workaround, I applaud the move in general.
The world has given too much power to oil- and gas-funded dictatorships. Right now, the West is hesitating about sanctions against Russia (which are required for peaceful settlement of the crisis in Ukraine) because they depend too heavily on the Russian resource exports.
The proper way is of course to lift the restrictions, but that is a heavy, lengthy political process, and this clever workaround provides a quick solution that we need urgently today.
We can gradually move to renewable energy later. It makes more sense to use the oil for other things anyway.
Oh, sorry, I didn't realize you were serious. The man is dead, so he doesn't have anything to say about this. Ray Kurzweil apparently misses him so much that he is willing to try and revive his personality, even if only in this, somewhat creepy, way.
Turning one's head rapidly in such an environment causes a "tilt" to be sensed as one's inner ears move at different rotational rates. Centrifuge studies show that people get motion-sick in habitats with a rotational radius of less than 100 metres, or with a rotation rate above 3 rotations per minute. However, the same studies and statistical inference indicate that almost all people should be able to live comfortably in habitats with a rotational radius larger than 500 meters and below 1 RPM.
That would mean a rather massive structure. So, an alternative design that would use less material is two stations tethered together and rotating around a common center. Or a station and a counterweight. Still, this requires a strong tether, which also means additional mass.
That's how I would really like to re-imagine the libraries today.
Sorry for the rant loosely related to the specific problem. It just hurts too much to see this artificial scarcity, nonsensical legal prosecutions... Oh, and while you are at it, do away with the censorship, too.
Yes, many people in eastern Ukraine perceive anyone who speaks Ukrainian as an ultra-nationalist. One has to wonder how xenophobic and illogical is that, Ukrainian being the primary state language. They prefer to elect a twice-convicted criminal only because he comes from the East and speaks Russian. The choice at the time was between Victor Yanukovich and Yulia Tymoshenko, who has nothing whatsoever to do with the nationalist movement.
Among the current opposition leaders, the only one who can be described as a right-wing nationalist is Oleg Tyagnybok and his Svoboda movement. They had some loud antisemitism-related scandals. Klychko and UDAR are nothing like that, being modern pro-european centrists. Yatsenyuk with Bat'kivschyna block are the successors of Yulia Tymoshenko, also quite moderate.
There are occasional racism-related crimes in Ukraine, but race could never be a political driver because there are simply too few people of racial minorities in Ukraine. Nationalism is something different.
There are two things more to explain the occasional over-reacting with the police force.
1. President Yanukovich comes from the east-Ukrainian criminal clan. He has served two terms in prison (IIRC for street robbery), which were later officially discarded with some help from his high-standing friends, allowing him to take high posts and even become a President. He received financial and other support from other ex-clan members (now respectable businessmen) and from Russia, who saw him as a better alternative to the nationalist candidates. East Ukraine voted for him and his party because they are easterners and they speak Russian. He has a deadly mix of "never give in" mentality and unconditional arrangements with his backers, so he generally doesn't like to negotiate with anyone. He also has full control over the Parliament majority and the court system, making him a de-facto dictator, so he also seldom has any need to negotiate.
2. Not everyone is happy with Yanukovich's heavy and greedy rule, even in his environment, so there is an off chance someone occasionally mis-informs him, provoking controversial situations.
I don't fully understand the ideological issues they're fighting over
A quick summary:
The protests started small and peaceful when president Yanukovich bowed to Russian pressure and reversed the political course away from signing the association agreement and trade deal with EU. Many people had high hopes for that and got disappointed. Still, the protests were in 10,000 people bracket, demanding to keep the EU course, and were almost dissolving in a few weeks, except for a few die-hard fans.
But then the rulers decided they could simply "clean up" the remaining protesters at night using riot police. They beat up the poor guys (mostly students) badly. Dozens of people were heavily injured and had to stay in hospital. A few have gone missing. Extreme unjustified brutality was filmed on multiple cameras.
That's when the protests scaled up to 500,000 people at some points. They also formed militia troops from ex-military to keep them safe. And the demands shifted from the EU topic to the replacement and punishment of the police minister, prime minister, and possibly the president. Still, the protests were largely peaceful, they were just not going to dissolve this time. And the president chose to ignore them completely and wait it out. It's winter, after all.
After two months of waiting, seeing people won't go home, they decided to criminalize the protests, free speech in press and social media, and a whole range of other common freedoms, giving more power to the police at the same time. Bypassing all due procedures (not even counting votes), a 10-pack of corresponding laws was passed. Then everyone with a brain saw it was sliding towards a dictatorship, and disagreements with the riot police got hotter and hotter, until it eventually came to tear gas on one side and Molotov cocktails on the other side, and now also bullets.
If you want more detail, browse the BBC new archives, their coverage is generally good. The only common mistake in Western press is that they still call these protests "pro-EU", when in fact now it's more "anti-Yanukovitch and his party". The most active protesters are from the nationalist right wing and are strongly against any union either with EU or with Russia. And the bigger, more peaceful crowd is also more concerned about overthrowing the oppressive government right now, and discuss the foreign policy later.
They do plan to order at least a few feasibility studies from serious companies in the process. And they draw public attention to the whole topic. I think that's good. I would not give them my money, but I don't mind others doing so. And speaking about reality shows, this one (even about the selection process and training) will not be the worst one, so a small win again.
Claims inside knowledge. So they did not manually review the sources but continued with their existing cross-checking algorithms, adding more of basic trusted material.
An optimist in me wants to believe that Watson would still be as useful as a team of poorly trained junior research assistants, and with further reviews and trainings it could gradually get better. As a decision support system, it probably does not give you a black box result and ask you to trust it. I believe it should provide a list of references, and you can double-check them for validity, for those entries where it was not done yet.
Watson cannot program, but maybe it can at least summarize/categorize/search through all the papers and ideas popping up every day in the field of AI, cognitive science and data mining. Thus it can speed up the development by humans in this field as much as in any other.
One of the theories for the origin of these hypervelocity stars is 3-body chaotic gravity assist. When two bodies are entering a gravity assist trajectory around a third, very massive body, their interactions sometimes add up in such a way that one body falls into a tight orbit, and another is ejected at a hypervelocity. Given the number of ternary star systems in the galaxy, this looks like a plausible explanation.
There is even a paper suggesting we could build an interstellar starship from two asteroids (PDF, 10 pages) using this mechanism. It was written by Josef L Breeden and presented at the 100 Year Starship conference.
As far as I understood from skimming the summary, their "more than Moore" concept is not about faster-than-Moore CPU scaling improvements, but about identifying and optimizing the most important use cases in the industry (automotive, mobile, health care, etc.)
What I found neat in their analysis is that they take a broader view than the media hype about the "Moore's Law". They mention a whole set of improvement trends:
"In terms of commercialization, we will have something technologically viable by the end of next year. Our partner, Hynix, is a major producer of flash memory, and memristors will cannibalize its existing business by replacing some flash memory with a different technology. So the way we time the introduction of memristors turns out to be important," said Stan Williams, Hewlett-Packard senior fellow and director of the company's cognitive systems laboratory, during a conversation at the Kavli Foundation.
A working memristor has already been proven in the lab by HP and they are now working with AMD, Intel, ARM and others to release what they call "nanostores". A chip that combines the memristor and logic of the CPU can prove to replace all current microprocessors and memory architectures.
It's true that we may not see another 90s-style MHz race on our desktops. But there is ongoing need for faster, bigger, better supercomputers and datacenters, and there is technology that can help there. I did quote some examples where this technology is touching the market already. And once it is adopted and refined by the government agencies and big data companies, it will also trickle down into consumer market.
I/O will get much faster. Storage will get much bigger. Computing cores may still become faster or more energy-efficient. New specialized co-processors may become common, for example for NN or QC. Then some of them may get integrated, as it happened to FPUs and GPUs. So the computing will most likely improve in different ways than before, but it is still going to develop fast and remain exciting.
And some technology may stay out of the consumer market, similar to your supersonic flight example, but it will still benefit the society.
- Memristors do not enable any new approach to computing, as there are neither many problems that would benefit form this approach, nor tools. The whole idea is nonsense at this time. Maybe they will have some future as storage, but not anytime soon.
Memristors are great for neural network (NN) modelling. MoNETA is one of the first big neural modelling projects to use memristors for that. I do not consider NNs a magic solution to everything, but you must admit they have plenty of applications in computation-expensive tasks.
- Photonics is a dead-end. Copper is far too good and far too cheap in comparison.
Maybe fully photonic-based CPUs are way off, but at least for specialized use there are already photonic integrated circuits with hundreds of functions on a chip.
- Spintronics is old and has no real potential for ever working at this time.
MRAM uses electron spin to store data and is coming to market. Application of spintronics for general computing may be a bit further off in the future, but "no potential" is an overstatement.
- Quantum computing is basically a scam perpetrated by some part of the academic community to get funding. It is not even clear whether it is possible for any meaningful size of problem.
I see many emerging technologies that promise further great progress in computing. Here are some of them. I wish some industry people here could post some updates about their way to the market. They may not literally prolong the Moore's Law in regards to the number of transistors, but they promise great performance gains, which is what really matters.
3D chips. As materials science and manufacturing precision advances, we will soon have multi-layered (starting at a few layers that Samsung already has, but up to 1000s) or even fully 3D chips with efficient heat dissipation. This would put the components closer together and streamline the close-range interconnects. Also, this increases "computation per rack unit volume", simplifying some space-related aspects of scaling.
Memristors. HP is ready to produce the first memristor chips but delays that for business reasons (how sad is that!) Others are also preparing products. Memristor technology enables a new approach to computing, combining memory and computation in one place. They are also quite fast (competitive with the current RAM) and energy-efficient, which means easier cooling and possible 3D layout.
Photonics. Optical buses are finding their ways into computers, and network hardware manufacturers are looking for ways to perform some basic switching directly with light. Some day these two trends may converge to produce an optical computer chip that would be free from the limitations of electric resistance/heat, EM interference, and could thus operate at a higher clock speed. Would be more energy efficient, too.
Spintronics. Probably further in the future, but potentially very high-density and low-power technology actively developed by IBM, Hynix and a bunch of others. This one would push our computation density and power efficiency limits to another level, as it allows performing some computation using magnetic fields, without electrons actually moving in electrical current (excuse me for my layman understanding).
Quantum computing. This could qualitatively speed up whole classes of tasks, potentially bringing AI and simulation applications to new levels of performance. The only commercial offer so far is Dwave, and it's not a classical QC, but so many labs are working on that, the results are bound to come soon.
I'm sure there's a lot of great applications, but unifying persistent storage and memory seems like one with a lot of disruptive and performance enhancing possibilities relative to the limitations of RAM vs. disk.
Yes, that one is a great thing, too.
This is how it might go:
- First, they release it as memory modules / ultra-fast SSDs
- Then, someone tweaks Linux and Android to use this memory for the main persistent storage, as well
- Then, special APIs appear to treat more in-app memory operations as persistent (similar to PalmOS)
- In the meantime, the neuromorphic chips bring new low-power AI features to robots and mobile devices
- Then, neuromorphic co-processors are added to "normal" computers
- Then, memristor memory and neuromorphic logic units find their way into the CPUs, building powerful hybrid systems
And if you combine this with the potential performance gains from the other technology I mentioned, the "Moore's Law Ending" articles start looking really lame.
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I would choose Margaret Thatcher over Putin any day.
Also, exporting oil seems to work fine for Norway and Canada without turning them into aggressive dictatorships. I agree that oil money corrupts, but when there is a developed society in place, it's not too bad.
Exactly. It was passed for political reasons when the resource market was completely different. Now both the market and the political situation has changed, and it makes sense to lift the ban or work around it ASAP. Then it will be easier to negotiate / impose sanctions upon authoritative regimes like Russia.
Regardless of the ecological effects of our chemical energy dependency and the grey-area nature of this workaround, I applaud the move in general.
The world has given too much power to oil- and gas-funded dictatorships. Right now, the West is hesitating about sanctions against Russia (which are required for peaceful settlement of the crisis in Ukraine) because they depend too heavily on the Russian resource exports.
The proper way is of course to lift the restrictions, but that is a heavy, lengthy political process, and this clever workaround provides a quick solution that we need urgently today.
We can gradually move to renewable energy later. It makes more sense to use the oil for other things anyway.
Oh, sorry, I didn't realize you were serious. The man is dead, so he doesn't have anything to say about this. Ray Kurzweil apparently misses him so much that he is willing to try and revive his personality, even if only in this, somewhat creepy, way.
Who knows what kind of personal drama lies behind this. I'm not sure how appropriate it is to make jokes about it.
This is exactly what Ray Kurzweil wants to do with his father.
I wonder if they got this idea from him.
The required radius is about 500m, as I mentioned in my other post here. The smaller, cheaper alternative is a tethered design.
Turning one's head rapidly in such an environment causes a "tilt" to be sensed as one's inner ears move at different rotational rates. Centrifuge studies show that people get motion-sick in habitats with a rotational radius of less than 100 metres, or with a rotation rate above 3 rotations per minute. However, the same studies and statistical inference indicate that almost all people should be able to live comfortably in habitats with a rotational radius larger than 500 meters and below 1 RPM.
That would mean a rather massive structure. So, an alternative design that would use less material is two stations tethered together and rotating around a common center. Or a station and a counterweight. Still, this requires a strong tether, which also means additional mass.
This approach is suggested, for example, in this Mars Society article: The Use of SpaceX Hardware to Accomplish Near-Term Human Mars Mission.
For radiation shielding, they suggest to use the "consumables", which probably means fuel, raw materials, equipment and water.
That's how I would really like to re-imagine the libraries today.
Sorry for the rant loosely related to the specific problem. It just hurts too much to see this artificial scarcity, nonsensical legal prosecutions... Oh, and while you are at it, do away with the censorship, too.
Yes, many people in eastern Ukraine perceive anyone who speaks Ukrainian as an ultra-nationalist. One has to wonder how xenophobic and illogical is that, Ukrainian being the primary state language. They prefer to elect a twice-convicted criminal only because he comes from the East and speaks Russian. The choice at the time was between Victor Yanukovich and Yulia Tymoshenko, who has nothing whatsoever to do with the nationalist movement.
Among the current opposition leaders, the only one who can be described as a right-wing nationalist is Oleg Tyagnybok and his Svoboda movement. They had some loud antisemitism-related scandals. Klychko and UDAR are nothing like that, being modern pro-european centrists. Yatsenyuk with Bat'kivschyna block are the successors of Yulia Tymoshenko, also quite moderate.
There are occasional racism-related crimes in Ukraine, but race could never be a political driver because there are simply too few people of racial minorities in Ukraine. Nationalism is something different.
There are two things more to explain the occasional over-reacting with the police force.
1. President Yanukovich comes from the east-Ukrainian criminal clan. He has served two terms in prison (IIRC for street robbery), which were later officially discarded with some help from his high-standing friends, allowing him to take high posts and even become a President. He received financial and other support from other ex-clan members (now respectable businessmen) and from Russia, who saw him as a better alternative to the nationalist candidates. East Ukraine voted for him and his party because they are easterners and they speak Russian. He has a deadly mix of "never give in" mentality and unconditional arrangements with his backers, so he generally doesn't like to negotiate with anyone. He also has full control over the Parliament majority and the court system, making him a de-facto dictator, so he also seldom has any need to negotiate.
2. Not everyone is happy with Yanukovich's heavy and greedy rule, even in his environment, so there is an off chance someone occasionally mis-informs him, provoking controversial situations.
I don't fully understand the ideological issues they're fighting over
A quick summary:
The protests started small and peaceful when president Yanukovich bowed to Russian pressure and reversed the political course away from signing the association agreement and trade deal with EU. Many people had high hopes for that and got disappointed. Still, the protests were in 10,000 people bracket, demanding to keep the EU course, and were almost dissolving in a few weeks, except for a few die-hard fans.
But then the rulers decided they could simply "clean up" the remaining protesters at night using riot police. They beat up the poor guys (mostly students) badly. Dozens of people were heavily injured and had to stay in hospital. A few have gone missing. Extreme unjustified brutality was filmed on multiple cameras.
That's when the protests scaled up to 500,000 people at some points. They also formed militia troops from ex-military to keep them safe. And the demands shifted from the EU topic to the replacement and punishment of the police minister, prime minister, and possibly the president. Still, the protests were largely peaceful, they were just not going to dissolve this time. And the president chose to ignore them completely and wait it out. It's winter, after all.
After two months of waiting, seeing people won't go home, they decided to criminalize the protests, free speech in press and social media, and a whole range of other common freedoms, giving more power to the police at the same time. Bypassing all due procedures (not even counting votes), a 10-pack of corresponding laws was passed. Then everyone with a brain saw it was sliding towards a dictatorship, and disagreements with the riot police got hotter and hotter, until it eventually came to tear gas on one side and Molotov cocktails on the other side, and now also bullets.
If you want more detail, browse the BBC new archives, their coverage is generally good. The only common mistake in Western press is that they still call these protests "pro-EU", when in fact now it's more "anti-Yanukovitch and his party". The most active protesters are from the nationalist right wing and are strongly against any union either with EU or with Russia. And the bigger, more peaceful crowd is also more concerned about overthrowing the oppressive government right now, and discuss the foreign policy later.
They do plan to order at least a few feasibility studies from serious companies in the process. And they draw public attention to the whole topic. I think that's good. I would not give them my money, but I don't mind others doing so. And speaking about reality shows, this one (even about the selection process and training) will not be the worst one, so a small win again.
Claims inside knowledge. So they did not manually review the sources but continued with their existing cross-checking algorithms, adding more of basic trusted material.
An optimist in me wants to believe that Watson would still be as useful as a team of poorly trained junior research assistants, and with further reviews and trainings it could gradually get better. As a decision support system, it probably does not give you a black box result and ask you to trust it. I believe it should provide a list of references, and you can double-check them for validity, for those entries where it was not done yet.
Watson cannot program, but maybe it can at least summarize/categorize/search through all the papers and ideas popping up every day in the field of AI, cognitive science and data mining. Thus it can speed up the development by humans in this field as much as in any other.
But can Watson trade in insider information in a sneaky way?
Exactly. See also my post above about 3-body chaotic gravity assist.
One of the theories for the origin of these hypervelocity stars is 3-body chaotic gravity assist. When two bodies are entering a gravity assist trajectory around a third, very massive body, their interactions sometimes add up in such a way that one body falls into a tight orbit, and another is ejected at a hypervelocity. Given the number of ternary star systems in the galaxy, this looks like a plausible explanation.
There is even a paper suggesting we could build an interstellar starship from two asteroids (PDF, 10 pages) using this mechanism. It was written by Josef L Breeden and presented at the 100 Year Starship conference.
As far as I understood from skimming the summary, their "more than Moore" concept is not about faster-than-Moore CPU scaling improvements, but about identifying and optimizing the most important use cases in the industry (automotive, mobile, health care, etc.)
What I found neat in their analysis is that they take a broader view than the media hype about the "Moore's Law". They mention a whole set of improvement trends:
Integration Level: Components/chip, Moore’s Law
Cost: Cost per function
Speed: Microprocessor throughput
Power: Laptop or cell phone battery life
Compactness: Small and light-weight products
Functionality: Nonvolatile memory, imager
I looked up some companies by name (too bad you posted as AC and didn't mention them), and here is what I found:
Intel reveals a neuromorphic chip design based on memristors and spintronics
HP and Hynix postpone memristor-based memory to avoid cannibalizing their flash business
This pearl deserves to be quoted:
"In terms of commercialization, we will have something technologically viable by the end of next year. Our partner, Hynix, is a major producer of flash memory, and memristors will cannibalize its existing business by replacing some flash memory with a different technology. So the way we time the introduction of memristors turns out to be important," said Stan Williams, Hewlett-Packard senior fellow and director of the company's cognitive systems laboratory, during a conversation at the Kavli Foundation.
SanDisk and Toshiba are testing a ReRAM (memristor memory) chip
HP working with AMD, Intel, ARM and others to release memristor-based "nanostores".
A working memristor has already been proven in the lab by HP and they are now working with AMD, Intel, ARM and others to release what they call "nanostores". A chip that combines the memristor and logic of the CPU can prove to replace all current microprocessors and memory architectures.
A startup named "Crossbar" will try to beat HP to market with memristor-based ReRAM.
It's true that we may not see another 90s-style MHz race on our desktops. But there is ongoing need for faster, bigger, better supercomputers and datacenters, and there is technology that can help there. I did quote some examples where this technology is touching the market already. And once it is adopted and refined by the government agencies and big data companies, it will also trickle down into consumer market.
I/O will get much faster. Storage will get much bigger. Computing cores may still become faster or more energy-efficient. New specialized co-processors may become common, for example for NN or QC. Then some of them may get integrated, as it happened to FPUs and GPUs. So the computing will most likely improve in different ways than before, but it is still going to develop fast and remain exciting.
And some technology may stay out of the consumer market, similar to your supersonic flight example, but it will still benefit the society.
- 3D chips are decades old and have never materialized.
24-layer flash chips are currently produced by Samsung. IBM works on 3D chip cooling. Just because it "never materialized" before, doesn't mean it won't happen now.
- Memristors do not enable any new approach to computing, as there are neither many problems that would benefit form this approach, nor tools. The whole idea is nonsense at this time. Maybe they will have some future as storage, but not anytime soon.
Memristors are great for neural network (NN) modelling. MoNETA is one of the first big neural modelling projects to use memristors for that. I do not consider NNs a magic solution to everything, but you must admit they have plenty of applications in computation-expensive tasks.
And while HP reconsidered its previous plans to offer memristor-based memory by 2014, they still want to ship it by 2018.
- Photonics is a dead-end. Copper is far too good and far too cheap in comparison.
Maybe fully photonic-based CPUs are way off, but at least for specialized use there are already photonic integrated circuits with hundreds of functions on a chip.
- Spintronics is old and has no real potential for ever working at this time.
MRAM uses electron spin to store data and is coming to market. Application of spintronics for general computing may be a bit further off in the future, but "no potential" is an overstatement.
- Quantum computing is basically a scam perpetrated by some part of the academic community to get funding. It is not even clear whether it is possible for any meaningful size of problem.
NASA, Google and NSA, among others, think otherwise.
So, no. There really is nothing here.
I respectfully disagree. We definitely have something.
I see many emerging technologies that promise further great progress in computing. Here are some of them. I wish some industry people here could post some updates about their way to the market. They may not literally prolong the Moore's Law in regards to the number of transistors, but they promise great performance gains, which is what really matters.
3D chips. As materials science and manufacturing precision advances, we will soon have multi-layered (starting at a few layers that Samsung already has, but up to 1000s) or even fully 3D chips with efficient heat dissipation. This would put the components closer together and streamline the close-range interconnects. Also, this increases "computation per rack unit volume", simplifying some space-related aspects of scaling.
Memristors. HP is ready to produce the first memristor chips but delays that for business reasons (how sad is that!) Others are also preparing products. Memristor technology enables a new approach to computing, combining memory and computation in one place. They are also quite fast (competitive with the current RAM) and energy-efficient, which means easier cooling and possible 3D layout.
Photonics. Optical buses are finding their ways into computers, and network hardware manufacturers are looking for ways to perform some basic switching directly with light. Some day these two trends may converge to produce an optical computer chip that would be free from the limitations of electric resistance/heat, EM interference, and could thus operate at a higher clock speed. Would be more energy efficient, too.
Spintronics. Probably further in the future, but potentially very high-density and low-power technology actively developed by IBM, Hynix and a bunch of others. This one would push our computation density and power efficiency limits to another level, as it allows performing some computation using magnetic fields, without electrons actually moving in electrical current (excuse me for my layman understanding).
Quantum computing. This could qualitatively speed up whole classes of tasks, potentially bringing AI and simulation applications to new levels of performance. The only commercial offer so far is Dwave, and it's not a classical QC, but so many labs are working on that, the results are bound to come soon.
I'm sure there's a lot of great applications, but unifying persistent storage and memory seems like one with a lot of disruptive and performance enhancing possibilities relative to the limitations of RAM vs. disk.
Yes, that one is a great thing, too.
This is how it might go:
- First, they release it as memory modules / ultra-fast SSDs
- Then, someone tweaks Linux and Android to use this memory for the main persistent storage, as well
- Then, special APIs appear to treat more in-app memory operations as persistent (similar to PalmOS)
- In the meantime, the neuromorphic chips bring new low-power AI features to robots and mobile devices
- Then, neuromorphic co-processors are added to "normal" computers
- Then, memristor memory and neuromorphic logic units find their way into the CPUs, building powerful hybrid systems
And if you combine this with the potential performance gains from the other technology I mentioned, the "Moore's Law Ending" articles start looking really lame.