I always wondered if we were simply pushing too much on the standard CPU/GPU logic, especially I asked myself why the hell do we need a billion transistors working a billions time a second each one to do maybe some billions of simple computation, in binary... There must be a smarter way to use all those expensive switches no?
Hence I'm both surprised by this device and totally fascinated by the idea of a future scaling of intelligence more than hertz or any other meaningless number.
Oh just get us that singularity, wont you IBM?
To anyone worried enough about its existence just remember how dangerous are ourselves humans, to the skeptics that think it's impossible to achieve intelligence just look at us: what's more than a dozen of atom kinds placed in the right way in our brains?
If simulation at the atom level is almost impossible then individual neurons are much more easy and this device already tries so.
Intelligence (and most importantly, free will) is a human trait. Computers can never replace that (though they might surpass "intelligence" in some metrics, arguably benchmarked according to computational ability).
If computers become "smarter", will they create Art? Will they believe in God?
1) almost sure.
2) hmm, ask them. Unless we start to believe them so...
Actually, this is the wrong point. Intelligence is not just a human trait. There are plenty of non-human animals that are intelligent. As for free will, it's a nice illusion that doesn't exist.
Haha nice one, 50% agree here: free will? That's maybe an illusion but it depends on how really the world works, say I need a time machine to discover it. Paradoxes allowed? Then possibly yes. Fixed time events? Then it's no-no. Parrallel universes aside of course