The limitation here is interpreted accentuations and generally being restricted to having words come out, but having no control over how they come out. Don't even think about singing.
Interfacing with the vagus nerve through a laryngeal simulator would translate muscle intentions into sound rather than words into sound.
I saw a fairly impressive simulator of the human vocal tract a while back, and a demonstration of EEG devices on the neck. This is the holy grail of voice restoration/synthesis.
What is a real application in this case? Seems to me like performance could vary wildly from one "real world" application to another, so it may not be as simple as to say 1 Petaflop real performance.
Peak in this case would indicate a much larger performance difference, but again, not a particularly meaningful number.
But if it runs Crysis, that's all I need to know.
Didn't Blue Gene/L do nearly 500 TFlops sustained in 2007? Doubling that by 2011 seems a little... slow.
Perhaps the architectural difference will have more substantial benefits in real world performance, but by the given numbers alone, it seems like a disappointing upgrade.
and what companies are doing will result in this country's ultimate demise as a superpower.
You say this as if it's a bad thing. Jobs going to poorer regions of the world is a natural and wonderful balancing. Jobs being lost to automation, that's even greater.
That's fiendishly crude and sloppy. If you have the technology to do this plus receive and send all necessary neural data, you will surely have the technology to replicate the biological network in a more durable medium and forego such a haphazard implementation in the first place.
Watch for the government to try to restrict this research, or use of its results, to "save social security".
If the theory is that the government will restrict what is not in their favor, I find it hard to believe they would, of all things, prevent the development of technology that could extend their reign indefinitely.
hardware wears out, and without infrastructure to support it, the 'singularity' will die through disk/memory/processor/whatever failure in fairly short order. I don't think you've thought this through. The internet, computers, anything electronic should have been long gone by now if it subscribed to your "wearing out" policy.
So then you see that diet and exercise only goes so far in making people healthier and smarter. At some point a bit of modern marvel is just the thing. Vitrectomy for you, a better hippocampus for Jimmy. Let's not define some arbitrary boundary to what level of technology is sane.
BTW, I love how you instantly get +1 Score, that's wonderful:)
Ultimately, unless you can explain how a exact copy of a certain physical system is not the physical system in question despite being identical in every point that can be measured or debated over, yes it is.
I don't see any sane person adding a computer to his brain for non-medical uses. Never thought I'd see any sane person carrying a computer in their pocket. It's a wonderful thing how narrow-minded objections obsolete so quickly.
It takes 15 years, sometimes, for a useful drug with no proven side effects to make it to market. How long does it take a new transistor manufacturing technology to make it to market?
Technology won't sit idle during the period the drug is being brought to market. The transition phase is not the same length it takes to release the product. It may take 10 years for a drug to come to market, but one year later another drug is discovered which will also take 10 years. When the first drug comes out, the next one will be available one year later.
It's equally ridiculous to assume that the rate of increase will remain the same with no compelling evidence to support the assertion. You have unrealistically high expectations of compelling evidence. Kurzweil has used numerous examples going from medical imaging resolutions, both temporal and spacial, DNA sequencing costs, DNA synthesis costs, the exponential growth of available gene therapies.
Either you misinterpreted that part of the movie or I have.
My understanding was that it makes no difference who falls into the tank because it is illogical to presume a uniqueness between two identical copies.
You're making me feel guilty for breathing without having someone charge me for it. Think of the capital that can be created by monetizing oxygen consumption.
I'd like American Idol banned from the TV/web, and myspace. All those shitty car commercials, ban them too.
Fortunately for the free world, we won't get what we want.
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One frame more for a quad core processor over the closest dual core.
Not exactly a "requirement"
Kudos to the monkey. If I found myself in a tiny box and without feeling in my arm, the last thing on my mind would be earning rewards.
Achievement points, maybe.
The limitation here is interpreted accentuations and generally being restricted to having words come out, but having no control over how they come out. Don't even think about singing. Interfacing with the vagus nerve through a laryngeal simulator would translate muscle intentions into sound rather than words into sound. I saw a fairly impressive simulator of the human vocal tract a while back, and a demonstration of EEG devices on the neck. This is the holy grail of voice restoration/synthesis.
The ONLY real hard part is the flash of insight that computers can never do
My insight algorithm would disagree.
What is a real application in this case? Seems to me like performance could vary wildly from one "real world" application to another, so it may not be as simple as to say 1 Petaflop real performance. Peak in this case would indicate a much larger performance difference, but again, not a particularly meaningful number. But if it runs Crysis, that's all I need to know.
Didn't Blue Gene/L do nearly 500 TFlops sustained in 2007? Doubling that by 2011 seems a little... slow. Perhaps the architectural difference will have more substantial benefits in real world performance, but by the given numbers alone, it seems like a disappointing upgrade.
and what companies are doing will result in this country's ultimate demise as a superpower.
You say this as if it's a bad thing. Jobs going to poorer regions of the world is a natural and wonderful balancing. Jobs being lost to automation, that's even greater.
You're been reading quantum-brain hogwash again haven't you?
That's fiendishly crude and sloppy. If you have the technology to do this plus receive and send all necessary neural data, you will surely have the technology to replicate the biological network in a more durable medium and forego such a haphazard implementation in the first place.
Watch for the government to try to restrict this research, or use of its results, to "save social security".
If the theory is that the government will restrict what is not in their favor, I find it hard to believe they would, of all things, prevent the development of technology that could extend their reign indefinitely.
How large a part of the Roadrunner supercomputer can your brain simulate? If you're going to make a direct comparison, let's make it fair.
So then you see that diet and exercise only goes so far in making people healthier and smarter. At some point a bit of modern marvel is just the thing. Vitrectomy for you, a better hippocampus for Jimmy. Let's not define some arbitrary boundary to what level of technology is sane.
BTW, I love how you instantly get +1 Score, that's wonderful :)
Ultimately, unless you can explain how a exact copy of a certain physical system is not the physical system in question despite being identical in every point that can be measured or debated over, yes it is.
What does liposuction have to do with sanity? People like to improve themselves. To suggest doing so is insanity is insanity.
Either you misinterpreted that part of the movie or I have. My understanding was that it makes no difference who falls into the tank because it is illogical to presume a uniqueness between two identical copies.
If you want a transfer, you copy and delete the original. Now you've transferred the consciousness. Problem solved.
You're making me feel guilty for breathing without having someone charge me for it. Think of the capital that can be created by monetizing oxygen consumption.
Looks like slamming into Newfoundland is acceptable.
I'd like American Idol banned from the TV/web, and myspace. All those shitty car commercials, ban them too. Fortunately for the free world, we won't get what we want.
The first conscious AI will without a doubt be created by a spammer. Forget cures for diseases, there are cats behind letters to be found.