OrionWorks wrote:
They claim their products contain the equivalent power of
colossal supercomputer number crunching computers that sit on a table
tops, powered by a typical wall socket. NASA and DOD have purchased
systems for evaluation.
A real surprise may be poised to happen when this new kind of processing
power is combined with with massively parallel but conventional CPUs.
Within a few years, we will easily be at that level -- and then, all
that one needs to add, perhaps, is a few simple "machine learning"
algorithms.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning
This is not to say that the huge man-hour effort expended by Cycorp in
Texas has been wasted:
http://www.cyc.com/
Hey you can add some of that software, like the inference engine, onto
the front-end of the learning algorithms - along with better language
recognition than is available now ...
BUT... then, for the big surprise, you give the box its own dedicated
fiber optic high bandwidth connection to the internet , flip the switch,
back-off and come back in a few months ....
William Gibson never went quite that far.... as the premise of SI
(superior intelligence) kinda eliminates the drama of any good story -
if the protagonist becomes too perfect....
Jones
OTOH -- wasn't Hal9000 "too perfect"?
