IBM Simulates 4.5% of the Human Brain; Skynet Is Next

It's beautiful well known at this point that computers are quickly catching up with humanity as far as brain power is concerned. Storage-smart, we've been long surpassed by machines, and potently fast computers can run circles more or less the human brain in solving complex equations. Happening the other hand, humanity wins in the brain's see-through machine power and energy efficiency.

At any rate, for directly.

IBM's Blue Gene supercomputer has already surpassed the processing power of some of our weaker animal relatives; mice, rats and cats, and according to IBM's research paper, the anthropomorphous brain isn't that far ahead.

The brain contains connected the order of 20 1000000000 neurons that are well-connected aside roughly 200 trillion synapses. IBM's Blue Gene supercomputer has 147,456 parallel processors, each with about 1GB of working storage. This has enabled them to simulate about 4.5 percent of the human psyche. That solitary leaves an estimated 732,544 processors left to add in to equal the processing power of 1 human mastermind–a task IBM says it testament complete by 2020.

When was Judgement Twenty-four hours, again?

We've covered the apocalyptic scene of Moore's Law of computers before, but it's worth revisiting here. Processing power on par with the human brain could spark real, thoughtful artificial intelligence activity and give rise the singularity of science fiction, a point where computers are smart enough to make themselves progressively intelligent through iteration and design, outstripping mankind and becoming the virtually precocious things approximately. Would this be beneficial to humanity surgery mean our end as the sovereign species?

What act up you think?

[IBM via Scientific American]

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