Computing: Researchers Predict Faster-Than-Ever Transformation
By Dennis Kuba
November 2, 2011
November 2, 2011
- IBM researchers are developing SyNAPSE, a new generation chip that can learn from experience, create its own hypothesis and remember. In a simple exercise, it learned to play Pong badly at first, but was unbeatable weeks later.
- “As chips such as the one from SyNAPSE become smarter and smaller, it will be possible to embed them in everyday objects,” reports Businessweek. “That portends a future in which the interaction between computer and user is far more natural and ubiquitous.”
- As previously reported on ETCentric, Microsoft is working on Holodesk, a 3D user interface that allows one to interact with 3D objects using an Xbox Kinect and an optical transparent display.
- Intel’s 2020 CPU hopes to communicate with algorithms and other machines as well as “understand what it means to be human.”
- “Computing is undergoing the most remarkable transformation since the invention of the PC,” said Intel CEO Paul Otellini. “The innovation of the next decade is going to outstrip the innovation of the past three combined.”
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I think I saw that movie. It didn’t end well, for the humans… 😉
I think I saw that movie. It didn’t end well, for the humans… 😉
We’re 14 years late… “Skynet becomes self-aware at 02:14 am Eastern Time after its activation on August 4, 1997”
We’re 14 years late… “Skynet becomes self-aware at 02:14 am Eastern Time after its activation on August 4, 1997”
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