Matt: Dangerous AI? (Introduction)

by David Turell , Friday, December 27, 2013, 00:12 (3985 days ago) @ xeno6696

http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/lowpower-chips-to-model-a-billion-neurons&a... 
> Matt: ~88k chips needed to model 1Bn Neurons. Again, the only wall is money.-Again ,fascinating article. Thanks. Best comment:-'Cool hardware but seems a bit wasteful without better hypotheses as to brain functioning.' -> 
> Matt: Key takeaway:
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> "Unlike the digital circuits in traditional computers, which could take weeks or even months to model a single second of brain operation, these analog circuits can model brain activity as fast as or even faster than it really occurs, and they consume a fraction of the power."-Still must listen to the complexity of the function of the brain. Computing shortcuts may undercut the results.