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toddmiller

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Mon Nov 26, 2012, 12:23 AM Nov 2012

Throwing Cold Water On the Singurality Idea [View all]

https://www.impartial-review.com/stories/will-the-computers-really-take-over

No matter how much you increase the computing power of ordinary computers, they will not become intelligence. Furthermore, research into creating computers with human-thinking capabilities will do just that. Create minds that are not more intelligence but perhaps as intelligent as humans. Maybe someday a singularlity will occu, but the two major research projects claim they are ten years away from creating the first virtual incomplete human brain. Every neuron in the human cortex has 16 billion neurons which has the computing power of a labtop. So the first job is to create a 16 billion-core machine that is massively parallel.

However, robotic thinking honey bees. That's probably going to happen.
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