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[Immortal]

Soon, you will see them jumping all over the place, Watch out for your heads !
We're all going to wear helmets.

[wjfox]

Artificial synapses could lead to advanced computer memory and machines that mimic biological brains

April 1, 2012

In a step toward computers that mimic the parallel processing of complex biological brains, researchers from HRL Laboratories, LLC, and the University of Michigan have built a type of artificial synapse.

They have demonstrated the first functioning “memristor” array stacked on a conventional complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) circuit. Memristors combine the functions of memory and logic, like the synapses of biological brains.

http://www.kurzweila....logical-brains

[eacao]

Basic run down of how a memristor functions.

[Ru1138]

http://www.scienceda...20402113038.htm

Now, computer scientist Hava Siegelmann of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, an expert in neural networks, has taken Turing's work to its next logical step. She is translating her 1993 discovery of what she has dubbed "Super-Turing" computation into an adaptable computational system that learns and evolves, using input from the environment in a way much more like our brains do than classic Turing-type computers. She and her post-doctoral research colleague Jeremie Cabessa report on the advance in the current issue of Neural Computation.

[Raklian]

http://www.scienceda...20402113038.htm

Now, computer scientist Hava Siegelmann of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, an expert in neural networks, has taken Turing's work to its next logical step. She is translating her 1993 discovery of what she has dubbed "Super-Turing" computation into an adaptable computational system that learns and evolves, using input from the environment in a way much more like our brains do than classic Turing-type computers. She and her post-doctoral research colleague Jeremie Cabessa report on the advance in the current issue of Neural Computation.

You beat me to it. The instant I read this article I knew I had to post it in here.

[Ru1138]

You beat me to it. The instant I read this article I knew I had to post it in here.

Sorry for stealing your thunder.

[GNR Rvolution]

Print-your-own-robots developed in US

Printed-on-demand robots might be a reality before the end of the decade if a US-based project achieves its goals.

Researchers aim to build a desktop technology that would allow an average person to design and print a machine within 24 hours.

http://www.bbc.co.uk...nology-17614392

Edited by GNR Rvolution, 05 April 2012 - 11:44 AM.

[Logically Irrational]

The Robots Are Coming to Hospitals

http://online.wsj.co...0525870934.html

Robots have already staked out a place in the health-care world—from surgical droids that can suture a wound better than the human hand to "nanobots" that can swim in the bloodstream. But the stage is now set for a different kind of robots, one with a sophisticated brain and an unlimited tolerance for menial tasks.

In the next few years, thousands of "service robots" are expected to enter the health-care sector—picture R2D2 from "Star Wars" carrying a tray of medications or a load of laundry down hospital corridors.

Fewer than 1,000 of these blue-collar robots currently roam about hospitals, but those numbers are expected to grow quickly.

As America's elderly population grows, the country's health-care system is facing cost pressures and a shortage of doctors and nurses. Many administrators are hoping to foist some of the less glamorous work onto robots.

This could create a potential bonanza for software and application developers to write new programs for them, investors and industry watchers say.

"My guess is that in five years, there will be 10 times the number of robots deployed in hospitals that there are today," said Donald Jones, a managing director at Draper Triangle Ventures, who is backing privately held robotics company Aethon Inc. "We are just not going to have enough human hands to do all the work."

[Logically Irrational]

[Craven]

http://science.slash...grand-challenge

Humanoid Robots For the Next DARPA Grand Challenge?


"The official announcement should be out very soon, but for now here's the unofficial, preliminary details based on notes from Dr. Gill Pratt's talk at DTRA Industry Day: The new Grand Challenge is for a humanoid robot (with a bias toward bipedal designs) that can be used in rough terrain and for industrial disasters. The robot will be required to maneuver into and drive an open-frame vehicle (eg. tractor), proceed to a building and dismount, ingress through a locked door using a key, traverse a 100 meter rubble-strewn hallway, climb a ladder, locate a leaking pipe and seal it by closing off a nearby valve, and then replace a faulty pump to resume normal operations — all semi-autonomously with just 'supervisory teleoperation.' It looks like there will be six hardware teams to develop new robots, and twelve software teams using a common platform."

[wjfox]

[Time_Traveller]

Looks like a Robot version of The Sims.

[Logically Irrational]

Only ten times creepier.

[Logically Irrational]

Artificial Intelligence Could Be on Brink of Passing Turing Test

http://www.wired.com...test-revisited/

One hundred years after Alan Turing was born, his eponymous test remains an elusive benchmark for artificial intelligence. Now, for the first time in decades, it’s possible to imagine a machine making the grade.

Turing was one of the 20th century’s great mathematicians, a conceptual architect of modern computing whose codebreaking played a decisive part in World War II. His test, described in a seminal dawn-of-the-computer-age paper, was deceptively simple: If a machine could pass for human in conversation, the machine could be considered intelligent.

Artificial intelligences are now ubiquitous, from GPS navigation systems and Google algorithms to automated customer service and Apple’s Siri, to say nothing of Deep Blue and Watson — but no machine has met Turing’s standard. The quest to do so, however, and the lines of research inspired by the general challenge of modeling human thought, have profoundly influenced both computer and cognitive science.

There is reason to believe that code kernels for the first Turing-intelligent machine have already been written.

“Two revolutionary advances in information technology may bring the Turing test out of retirement,” wrote Robert French, a cognitive scientist at the French National Center for Scientific Research, in an Apr. 12 Science essay. “The first is the ready availability of vast amounts of raw data — from video feeds to complete sound environments, and from casual conversations to technical documents on every conceivable subject. The second is the advent of sophisticated techniques for collecting, organizing, and processing this rich collection of data.”

“Is it possible to recreate something similar to the subcognitive low-level association network that we have? That’s experiencing largely what we’re experiencing? Would that be so impossible?” French said.

[Logically Irrational]

Funny:

[eacao]

hmm. I think I could have a long debate with one of those ^. It'l be tough though :|

[eacao]

Looks like a Robot version of The Sims.

WTF. That is one of the weirdest comments on this website.

[GNR Rvolution]

Moore's Law has ten years to run, predicts physicist


Renowned theoretical physicist Michio Kaku has predicted Moore's Law will run out of steam within the next ten years as silicon designs run up against the laws of physics.

http://www.theregist...oores_law_ends/

Edited by GNR Rvolution, 01 May 2012 - 12:16 PM.

[Craven]

How will we build artificial human brain?

http://io9.com/5906945/

Nice read about approaches to reverse engineer human brain, including eerie remarks like "we will not need to understand the whole system in order to emulate it"

[wjfox]