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New IBM computer chip mimics the human brain
- b_emery 15y agoIt appears that the AI is, as they say, 'baked in': "systems built with these chips won’t be programmed the same way traditional computers are today. Rather, cognitive computers are expected to learn through experiences, find correlations, create hypotheses, and remember – and learn from – the outcomes, mimicking the brains structural and synaptic plasticity." (Quote from the original press release: http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/35251.wss http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/35251.wss) This is either marketing fluff, or the most important story I've read this year.
- vonsydov 15y agoIts cute. Interesting how they're busting on modern day computers and calling them calculators. I think we have the same kind of hype that happened 30 years back with early AI. The new chips are just fancy pattern matchers. And we still don't have a clue how higher level thinking works in the brain. Well guess what, humans and brains are calculators too, its just that we can calculate on a long term basis on non-mathematical entities.
- ColinWright 15y agoPrevious submissions of the same story: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2900593 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2900593 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2899885 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2899885 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2899850 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2899850 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2899643 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2899643 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2899299 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2899299 <- some discussion http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2898229 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2898229 <- lots of comments