There has been incredible advancement in terms of building an artificial brain. My previous post dealt with the Singularity. For it to occur, a computer will have to be more than a fancy calculator. It will have to get beyond its own code and be able to actually "think." While that does not exist at present, it is the brain emulating crowd who may get us there. The two huge advantages of the human brain is it is massively parallel and uses extremely low power to operate. The break through mentioned in the attached article is getting us one step closer to solving both of those problems. Software (a thinking - operating system) is another issue for a later discussion. What are your thoughts? Will we ever see a computer that becomes self aware?
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