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". G I D" <gkiers@xs4all.nl> >Artificial brain brings food for thought etvas thought food 4 your thought. glial cells = much much much more numerous than neurons. guess what +? they like to play 222222222222222 >By GARRY BARKER >TECHNOLOGY REPORTER >Wednesday 26 January 2000 > >Professor Hugo de Garis > >Professor Hugo de Garis, physicist, lately of Melbourne and now of Kyoto in >Japan, fears that his experiments may ultimately lead to the extermination >of the human race. nn used to think that 2222222. but then ... she began liking bodies >fears that his experiments may ultimately lead to the extermination >of the human race. how will you spend your free time +? >At the Kyoto Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute yesterday, >Professor de Garis switched on a machine with which he will build the >world's first neural circuits for a true artificial brain. > >In the next 12 to 15 months the cellular automata machine (CAM) in his >laboratory will create a device composed of 75million silicon neurons, >similar in capability to those in a human brain. > >The neuron networks are built up so that their connections are random, as >they are in the human brain. Most of them fail in production and are >discarded by a system based on Darwin's theory of evolution. Even so, the >circuits are built, tested, accepted or rejected at blinding speed, many >thousands every minute. > >When it is finished some time in 2001, this artificial brain or "artilect" >will go into a four-legged robot called Robokitty. > >By then work will have begun on the next generation of the artificial brain >which, Professor de Garis says, could be finished about 2007 and would have >more than 10 billion neurons. This would bring it to about the level of a >village idiot but within reach of the 23billion organic neurons contained in >the cortex of a human male (19 billion in a female). > >Then comes the third generation, which Professor de Garis expects to be >finished about 2011 - a fearsome creation of 1000billion neurons, vastly >larger than that of a human. > >"By then," says this unconventional Australian, "I expect we'll be in a >debate about whether we should proceed any further. > >"Long-term I am very worried about the political impact of brain building. > >"Since I am helping to pioneer this brain-building field, I feel a strong >moral obligation to stimulate discussion on this enormous question. Do we >allow the artificial intellects to take over or not?" > >Futurologists, such as the American computer engineer and author Ray >Kurzweil, agree with him. While they themselves are riding and driving the >technological revolution, they also see its scary side. > >A massively powerful artificial brain could easily develop contempt for its >comparatively puny human makers, says Professor de Garis, who predicts that >such a question could be this century's burning issue. you mean like the contempt humans have for god +? or wait... humans created god so ... you mean like the contempt god has for humans +? Professor deGaris - simply.employed nn - this century's burning issue. [i am dressed in fire] >On one side will be those afraid of the consequences of the science. On the >other those who see it as part of human destiny and who say that if >artilects are created by humans, then humans can set the boundaries for the >artificial intelligence. > >Professor de Garis is not so sure about humans retaining control, >particularly when it comes to a silicon brain 40 times smarter than your >average man. These, he says, should be coming out of the CAM machines by the >second half of this century. > >Some see parallels with the debate raised by the cloning of Dolly the sheep. > >The CAM machine with which Professor deGaris is working was built by >Genobyte, a US company based in Boulder, Colorado. It produces microscopic >modules on silicon chips each of about 1000 artificial neurons. Such >electrical connections in our human brains control our movements, our senses >and, perhaps most ominously when it is seen in an artificial environment, >our emotions and our imaginations. > >In his profile on his personal website, the professor says: "My dream in >life is to build artificial brains with billions of artificial neurons, and >see brain-like computers become a trillion-dollar industry within 20 years." > -----Syndicate mailinglist----------------------- Syndicate network for media culture and media art information and archive: http://anart.no/~syndicate to post to the Syndicate list: <syndicate@anart.no> no commercial use of the texts without permission