If you were to go about programming a computer
to think about itself, how would you do it?
Even if we program a computer to think about
itself, the computer would be extremely bored,
because he is as intelligent as a cash register
or washing machine. He just follows commands,
only extremely
Jochen Fromm wrote:
Since a brain contains more
than 100 billion neurons, each pattern is a
vast collection of nearly invisible little
things or processes.
For comparison, LANL Roadrunner has about 5 trillion transistors for the
CPUs (~13000 PowerXCell 8i processors and ~6500 dual core
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Yes, an impressive supercomputer. I think it is much more
difficult to use a supercomputer with a trillion
Jochen Fromm wrote:
I think it is much more difficult
to use a supercomputer with a trillion operations per second
than a huge cluster of ordinary computers, as you can find them
in Google's data centers.
One code for investigating synthetic cognition is called PetaVision.
This code was
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One code for investigating synthetic cognition is called PetaVision.
This code was adapted to Roadrunner and, like LINPACK, exceeded 1000
trillion floating point operations a second in recent
