IBM's cat-brain sim a 'scam,' says Swiss boffin Responding to its nation's sovereign call to develop electronics with the intelligence of a cat, IBM last week announced a major step in feline gray matter simulation. But professional rivalries clearly run deep inside puss brain replication circles, with a leading neuroscientist blasting the project as a "scam" and a "mass …
As a cat owner, i'm sure they were going for the low hanging fruit (dog-sized brain) but thought that a computer that only wanted to lubricate its output interfaces and core dumped in the kitchen wouldn't get them the column inches.
so they decide to go for a cat-sized brain, good luck to getting that to work.
the process listing would show 90% sleep cycles all the time, the recycle bin would be full of logs, and the file store full of LOLcats.
Look around for dogs
If dog found climb furniture
if tired then do sleep
else
Look around for servant
If servant found do "manipulate servant"
else
lick private parts
func manipulate servant()
rub self on servant leg()
if servant_rub || servant pat then do purr
else
goto start
if servant_kick then do hiss, run, goto start
if servant_feed then do sniff_food
end func
func sniff_food()
if food_smell >= hunger_level then do eat
else
goto start
end func
goto start
I cun haz prize now?
This is typical of so many pronouncements by technical professionals who can't conceive how a non-technical person might take their words.
Last one of note was the so-called desktop "electromagnetic blackhole" from Purdue U. that my non-technical friends mis-read as a cosmological black hole in a lab. Sigh.
"It's not artificial intelligence we're after here." .... IBM spokeswoman
Then pray tell what intelligence you are after, IBM. Is it IBM's conclusion/prognostication that Man's Intelligence is Failed and needs to be Replaced/is being Super Seeded?
What are you then using to make your decisions? The Intelligence of Women ..... or is IT AAA Phormed BaseMetaData Phished and Zipped from Virtual Space Communications in the Great Plagiarism for Lead Drive in a Grand New Real SurReal Intelligence Design for Virtual Reality Immersion and Conversion.
And if not, why not ....... whenever the Facility is so Freely Available....... and would Offer everything so Differently and thus Immediately Eliminate Conflicts ..... and a NIRobotIQs Program which A.N.Other HPCombine is Realising in the Rising Sun East?
* Or would that be too Alien a Program for Immediate Full Comprehension?
Consciousness can not be time sliced through a CPU, thoughts that took place in the past have a bearing on thoughts that take place in the present. If this did not happen the brain would need to grow expediently to accommodate more advanced though processes. I believe these kind of through time anomalies have been observed in sub atomic particle physics.
What comprises you is every thought you had from the moment you were born to the moment you die, all of which work together as a whole to give you conscious thought. Without that persistence through time all you have is lump of gray goo that is capable of very little.
Can I have my award now for solving the mystery of conscious thought please?
I guess not as philosophers will only accept that you are capable of having ideas if you reach level 3 in their club.
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