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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: headdie on January 29, 2013, 06:28:27 am
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A ten-year project in Europe will use supercomputers to simulate the workings of an entire human brain for the first time.
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It will take some time before they beat CASSANDRA.
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10 year project? A billion euros?
I didn't know people were capable of that much optimism.
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which is why it will probably overrun on time and budget, still the idea is interesting
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:wtf:
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Cue Euro-skynet.
Cue Terminators with French moustaches and berets......
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It all depends on the management. Lets hope they don't fk up.
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Cue Euro-skynet.
Cue Terminators with French moustaches and berets......
:wakka:
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Cue Euro-skynet.
Cue Terminators with French moustaches and berets......
"Au revoir, baby!"
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not to worry. the french terminators will surrender.
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Actually, they's just use all the money on the county to fund the nuclear hand grenade project and blow the **** out of us by hiding them inside baguettes and cheese wheels. It's brilliant I tell you.
Hopefully someone will have been working on a JC Denton for us to merge with it once it becomes aware of new possibilities and futures for the human race.
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not to worry. the french terminators will surrender.
:lol:
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Yes, please. **** cybernetics; just program my thoughts and memories into a proper robot, so that I can get rid of all of these inferior, squishy bits.
[/transhumanist dork]
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Robot shells are boring since all your parts are mechanical. What good is immortality if you're not enjoying yourself? I intend to enjoy mankind's transhuman future with as many biological bodies and forms as I can. :drevil:
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seems to me you're suggesting multi-species orgy.
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It's me. I'm the thread title
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Can i pair my bluetooth headset with you?
I want a cortana style buddy i can speak to on the bus.
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Cue Euro-skynet.
Cue Terminators with French moustaches and berets......
"Au revoir, baby!"
^ that made me paused and laughed while I was munching on small piece of French bread with water. :lol:
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btw guys europe consists of more than france
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Battu's right, we need to get them to send that thing over to Alpha Centauri.
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btw guys europe consists of more than france
Yer but France is where a lot of the big European projects end up or at least with France taking a major role, Britain, Germany and Italy often get involved but France is usually the common denominator.
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there are so many stereotypes though, why constrain yourself to only one!
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seems to me you're suggesting multi-species orgy.
Well, yes, but I was mainly suggesting the fact that I intend to be of many species and genders over my very long (possibly infinite) lifetime while BlueFlames is busy enjoying being a piece of machinery.
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seems to me you're suggesting multi-species orgy.
Well, yes, but I was mainly suggesting the fact that I intend to be of many species and genders over my very long (possibly infinite) lifetime while BlueFlames is busy enjoying being a piece of machinery.
Genderbenders vs. Mindrobots ? :)
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seems to me you're suggesting multi-species orgy.
Well, yes, but I was mainly suggesting the fact that I intend to be of many species and genders over my very long (possibly infinite) lifetime while BlueFlames is busy enjoying being a piece of machinery.
Genderbenders vs. Mindrobots ? :)
transspecies genderbenders vs mind robot orgy ;7
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seems to me you're suggesting multi-species orgy.
Well, yes, but I was mainly suggesting the fact that I intend to be of many species and genders over my very long (possibly infinite) lifetime while BlueFlames is busy enjoying being a piece of machinery.
Genderbenders vs. Mindrobots ? :)
You must mean Arm vs. Core. :P
I'm not looking forwards to dying an uncountable number of deaths just so I can keep the right to inhabit a biological body. :(
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pffft. IBM has been working on stuff like this for years.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2011/08/26/how-ibms-cognitive-computer-works/
It's a computer chip based on neurons.
EDIT: Except this is the exact opposite.
Europe is doing: Build X number of supercomputers and attempt to emulate the human brain.
IBM: Get a bunch of computer engineers and neuroscientists and build a computer chip with 256 artificial neurons and teach it to play Pong. Then scale it up to 2^20 neurons. Then scale it up to 2^33 neurons (137,438,953,472) close to 100 billion, the number of neurons in the human brain.
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there are so many stereotypes though, why constrain yourself to only one!
Yeah. I mean, we have germany. The first terminator will probably be some blue eyed heavy german guy who speaks with a thi...
wait.
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there are so many stereotypes though, why constrain yourself to only one!
Yeah. I mean, we have germany. The first terminator will probably be some blue eyed heavy german guy who speaks with a thi...
wait.
Arnold wasn't German :shhh:
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hes austrian, and what is the official language of austria: german.
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So lets say the scientists build their electronic human brain. They switch it on and it works, everybody celebrates. What would be the moral implications in turning it off?
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Uh. nothing? This is just a fancy computer that works like a brain, not a super-sexy, prospectively genocidal AI, right?
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you are better off turning it off before it tries to kill us. from a moral standpoint it would be bad to turn it off, but from a survivalist standpoint: KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!
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i've always wondered, can't we avoid the AI apocalypse just by not programming self-preservation into them?
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hes austrian, and what is the official language of austria: german.
You're Alaskan, and what's the official language of the US: English :P
i've always wondered, can't we avoid the AI apocalypse just by not programming self-preservation into them?
I, robot had an AI apocalypse without self-preservation... In fact, without even violating the Three Laws. Once the system becomes capable of autonomous thought, I'd say there is always a chance of AI apocalypse no matter how elaborate the safety buffers we build in.
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seems to me you're suggesting multi-species orgy.
Well, yes, but I was mainly suggesting the fact that I intend to be of many species and genders over my very long (possibly infinite) lifetime while BlueFlames is busy enjoying being a piece of machinery.
Genderbenders vs. Mindrobots ? :)
transspecies genderbenders vs mind robot orgy ;7
This sounds like a title from the random video game name generator.
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hes austrian, and what is the official language of austria: german.
You're Alaskan, and what's the official language of the US: English :P
i dont speak english, i speak redneck, its a completely different language.
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I'd imagine there's a fair difference between building a computer capable of simulating a human brain, and constructing an autonomous AI (and giving it control of all your nukes).
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Yes, but an electronic brain is the first step towards Skynet. I for one do not welcome our new robot overlords. :(
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yea, with a flame thrower!
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Uh. nothing? This is just a fancy computer that works like a brain, not a super-sexy, prospectively genocidal AI, right?
No, but think of it this way. Assume they make the brain. They switch it on and through the act of feeding it stimulus it begins to behave like a real human brain would so naturally one would conclude that if enough stimulus (of the correct type) is given for a long enough time that the brain becomes aware of itself like any growing human would and possibly even developing consciousness. At what point does 'turning off a computer' become 'ending a existence'?
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when it's state is not preserved between sessions.
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At what point does 'turning off a computer' become 'ending a existence'?
Depends on whether or not said computer can store its cognitive state when shut down. If it can do so, it would likely be much akin to biological sleep or unconsciousness. (damnit, ninja'd be Bobboau)
I'd rather we just get on with all the potential AI shenanigans anyways. We won't know the outcome until we try, and attempts at AI development / brain emulation are inevitable at this point. "Come whatever may", saith I.
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Just because something behaves like a living creature does not mean it is a living creature.
Things would REALLY start to get interesting if they just started growing brain matter in hopes of manufacturing the world's most inteligent creature. Is that alive?
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Uh. nothing? This is just a fancy computer that works like a brain, not a super-sexy, prospectively genocidal AI, right?
No, but think of it this way. Assume they make the brain. They switch it on and through the act of feeding it stimulus it begins to behave like a real human brain would so naturally one would conclude that if enough stimulus (of the correct type) is given for a long enough time that the brain becomes aware of itself like any growing human would and possibly even developing consciousness. At what point does 'turning off a computer' become 'ending a existence'?
IF it somehow turns into some sort of AI, then I say we patent the **** out of it, make hundreds of thousands more and strap them into some *****in' humanoid war machines and sell them to every metanation country in the world to use as cannon fodder in their perpetual war economy. There. Morality question dodged. :p
serious, non-I-think-an-AI-apocalypse-would-be--kinda-cool answer is uh, what they said :p. It doesn't really count as a ninja when you leave the window open for ~1.5hours without hitting post, does it?