Just for Matt (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Wednesday, January 06, 2010, 00:19 (5435 days ago) @ David Turell


> > > With 100 billion neurons and thousands of ways each can connect, can a human-desgned computer ever do this?
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> I found another 'can a computer do this article'. Can a computer be as plastic as the brain?
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> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091009092351.htm-The answer to this is yes, both in principle and in practice: The art of AI programming is set up so that the machine must learn; actually the entire field of genetic algorithms is essentially a computer-adaptive process to respond to changing stimuli. -The issue right now is as stated before--simply one of scale. Actually, our discussion of quantum computing will have a tremendous impact here as well; the fluidity of the mind works much more like a flock of birds than a clunky 0 or 1 computation--exactly the kind of problem quantum computing will solve.

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