On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 1:17 PM, BGB <[email protected]> wrote: > I was not arguing about the limits of computing, rather, IBM's specific > design. > it doesn't really realistically emulate real neurons, rather it is a from > what I can gather a simplistic "accumulate and fire" model, with the neurons > hard-wired into a grid. > > I suspect something more "generic" would be needed. >
Kurzweil addresses that. > > another question is what can be done in the near term and on present > hardware (future hardware may or may not exist, but any new hardware may > take years to make it into typical end-user systems). > > Kurzweil addresses that. As for biology, it is an iterative approach. The biggest insights are coming from better medical imaging techniques that allow us to see inside living systems' organs and better understand how they work. Kurzweil sort of discusses this too, and relates it to how it helped him develop better and more scalable algorithms even when the underlying hardware did not change.
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