by Hugo de Garis
Robot artificial intelligence is evolving a million times faster than human intelligence. This is a consequence of Moore's law, which states that the electronic performance of chips is doubling every year or so, whereas it took a million years for our human brains to double their capacities.
It is therefore likely that it is only a matter of time before our machines become smarter than we are. It is also likely that this development will occur this century if humanity chooses to allow it to happen.
My name is Prof. Hugo de Garis. My team and I are starting to design and build the world's first artificial brain at my lab, Starlab, in Brussels, Belgium, Europe, which should contain nearly 100 million artificial brain cells (neurons). In about 4 years, the next-generation artificial brain should contain a billion neurons.
Our human brains contain roughly 100 billion neurons, so it is not surprising that someone like me is preoccupied with the prospect of robot intelligence surpassing the human intelligence level. Admittedly, massive computational speed and size do not automatically equate to massive intelligence, but they are prerequisites. The potential is there. My brain-building team still faces the considerable challenge of architecting the artificial brain. We will need to become "BAs"--Brain Architects.
Despite this qualification, not only do I believe that artificial brains could become smarter than human beings, I believe that the potential intelligence of these massively intelligent machines (which I call "artilects" (artificial intellects) could be truly trillions of trillions of trillions of times greater.
http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0131.html?m=2
Robot artificial intelligence is evolving a million times faster than human intelligence. This is a consequence of Moore's law, which states that the electronic performance of chips is doubling every year or so, whereas it took a million years for our human brains to double their capacities.
It is therefore likely that it is only a matter of time before our machines become smarter than we are. It is also likely that this development will occur this century if humanity chooses to allow it to happen.
My name is Prof. Hugo de Garis. My team and I are starting to design and build the world's first artificial brain at my lab, Starlab, in Brussels, Belgium, Europe, which should contain nearly 100 million artificial brain cells (neurons). In about 4 years, the next-generation artificial brain should contain a billion neurons.
Our human brains contain roughly 100 billion neurons, so it is not surprising that someone like me is preoccupied with the prospect of robot intelligence surpassing the human intelligence level. Admittedly, massive computational speed and size do not automatically equate to massive intelligence, but they are prerequisites. The potential is there. My brain-building team still faces the considerable challenge of architecting the artificial brain. We will need to become "BAs"--Brain Architects.
Despite this qualification, not only do I believe that artificial brains could become smarter than human beings, I believe that the potential intelligence of these massively intelligent machines (which I call "artilects" (artificial intellects) could be truly trillions of trillions of trillions of times greater.
http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0131.html?m=2
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