It is the weekend and I usual find absurd, weird and just plain goofy crap that is out there for me to read…..and if you read my posts from last week, you will see that my brain really needs a break…..
This story made me think of SkyNet and that damn central computer in I, Robot….I mea it is a little far fetched to think that computers could actually take over….right?
While reading The Week…I saw something that got me to thinking…..
Robots can be programmed to do an impressive range of things — from walking dogs to defusing bombs — but making decisions for themselves has never been their strong suit. Now, however, scientists from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, however, have devised an unusually deductive robot that can survey its environment, figure out what tools are available, and perform tasks that it’s never been programmed to understand. The robot uses what’s called a Self-Organizing Incremental Neural Network, or SOINN, to fill in the gaps in its knowledge. SOINN is a type of artificial-intelligence algorithm that allows a robot to make educated guesses when faced with a new situation, based on what it already knows. When asked for a glass of water, for example, the robot knows that it needs to pick up a bottle of water in one hand and pour it into a glass. (Watch the video below.) But when asked to make the water cold, the robot pauses to think, then concludes that it needs to put down the empty water bottle, pick up a cube of ice, and place the ice in the water glass — all tasks that it has never before performed.
I know….you are thinking….”pure bullsh*t, right”?
Ya think?
IBM has unveiled a new experimental computer chip that it says mimics the human brain in that it perceives, acts and even thinks.
It terms the machines built with these chips “cognitive computers”, claiming that they are able to learn through experience, find patterns, generate ideas and understand the outcomes.
“These chips are another significant step in the evolution of computers from calculators to learning systems, signalling the beginning of a new generation of computers and their applications in business, science and government.”
IBM states that the chips, while certainly not biological, are inspired by the architecture of the human brain in their design. Digital silicon circuits make up what it terms the “neurosynaptic core”.
Okay, we are not yet at the point where SkyNet takes over and tries to eliminate mankind or to the point where the robot to protect human life must enslave them so they do not hurt themselves…..like I have said…we are not there yet…..but how long will it be before we are? Thoughts?