Some say this will be the beginning of the end. When computers are so fast and powerful that they totally outstrip our abilities and our ethics.
We could use them to cure diseases, dissecting and decrypting say cancer and hiv...or we use them to create better and more powerful weapons. They can simulate a person simply by running through all expected and probably emotional responses fast enough that someone believes they are "thinking" and "feeling". Yeah. It is supposed to usher in the new age , and next evolution so to speak. When they write algorithms that can parse natural language processes, why would we need programmers? You can just talk to the computer and tell it what you want it to do. The software can then source several similar requests and provide options for tables, and expected outcomes. "Computer, create a table to store basic user data. Add a field for hair colour and eye colour" "Computer create forms to manipulate user data. Computer, make form presentation style formal" I mean you get the idea. Think of this on the scale of Google, where what you create and build is pooled with everyone else's creations, so that the system gets better and better at interpreting systems and requests. The programmers are going to be the guys who create the FIRST machine like this, and after this other people can use that first machine to build others. At some point, won't the machine just naturally gain self awareness as it rattles through probabilities and possible responses etc. etc. ? It's fascinating, but scary at the same time. Because we haven't done so well with the limited technology and abilities that we do have today. On 18 June 2013 19:37, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote: > > There are some exciting breakthroughs that have been coming around recently > in quantum computing. There are now some "quantumish" computers in > production and new research seems to be bringing us ever close to true > quantum computing. I think this will be the first true revolution in how we > think about computing in decades. > > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/18/qubit_spin_doctors_take_it_down_to_nanometres/ > > Not just cool science but really neat engineering as well. > > Cheers, > Judah ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:364705 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
