Matt: Dangerous AI? (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, December 26, 2013, 05:16 (3986 days ago) @ xeno6696


> > > Matt: I think that in the next 100 years or so, we'll be able to mimic a great majority of human behaviors, but "true" AI is something that I do not believe will be possible until the underlying hardware more accurately models a brain.-
The hope for n AI brain just got much more difficult:-With trillions of dendrites in the brain it seems the brain is nothing but a mass of computing areas:-"Dendrites, the branch-like projections of neurons, were once thought to be passive wiring in the brain. But now researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have shown that these dendrites do more than relay information from one neuron to the next. They actively process information, multiplying the brain's computing power. "Suddenly, it's as if the processing power of the brain is much greater than we had originally thought," said Spencer Smith, PhD, an assistant professor in the UNC School of Medicine.
 
His team's findings, published October 27 in the journal Nature, could change the way scientists think about long-standing scientific models of how neural circuitry functions in the brain, while also helping researchers better understand neurological disorders."-
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2013/10/27/unc.neuroscientists.discover.new.mini.neural.computer.brain