IBM's supercomputer can think like a cat
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more from Tech:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=27507
IBM announced they're making huge progress developing a super computer that can think like a living thing's brain. We might think computers are already intelligent but none of them can imagine a wall painted a different color, for example, or picture a person's face and connect that to an emotion.But this week researchers from IBM are reporting that they've simulated a cat's cerebral cortex, the thinking part of the brain, using a massive supercomputer.
OK it's not actually a computer that thinks it's a cat, and actually runs 100 times slower than an actual cat's brain. But it's a big leap for the scientists in watching how thoughts are formed in the brain and how the roughly 1 billion neurons and 10 trillion synapses in a cat's brain work together.
Do you think this is a good idea? Or are you with the ZDnet writer who says "Something about a computer that thinks like a brain makes me nervous."
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=27507
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CarolineS
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I'm sure they had this type of advanced technology covered years ago, it's only now they've decided to show the public, and also, will this new computer be able to remember all of the Jewish names and numbers from the holocaust that IBM worked on?
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CarolineS
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HughbertD
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If they do a collab, they could get the xmas number 1
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HughbertD
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FreshPlastic
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The question on everyone's lips... How good is it at playing the keyboard?
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FreshPlastic
