HP researchers discovered intelligent memory
Researchers at Hewlett-Packard have developed a working unit of a memory circuit that has existed in theory for 37 years, which could ultimately replace RAM and make computers more intelligent by tracking data it has retained. The technology, called memristor, could allow computers to make decisions by understanding past patterns of data it has collected, similar to human brains collecting and understanding a series of events. For example, a memristor circuit could be capable of telling a microwave the heating time for different food types based on the information it has collected over time, said Stanley Williams, senior fellow at HP.
A memristor circuit requires lower voltage and less time to turn on than competitive memory like DRAM and flash, Williams said. “Because it [uses] less voltage and less time, of course, it uses much less power,” Williams said. Denser cells also allow memristor circuits to store more data than flash memory. Through prototypes, HP is trying to show circuit designers what memristor is capable of doing. “What we have done is confirmed a concept for a new electronic device that was originally proposed nearly 40 years ago,” Williams said. Memristor is the fourth fundamental circuit element, joining the other three — resistor, capacitor and inductor — that had been known for 150 years, Williams said. The element has properties that cannot be duplicated by any combination of the other three elements.
Source: PC World
that’s amazing, Williams said.
I could swear my computer already thinks for itself… Ahh wait, thats just the popup ads.
Haven’t there been like box office hits about “toasters” learning how to best chew our ass out…
Scary, yet fascinating stuff…
w00t !!!
I think that’s gonna take some years to be used as opposed to standard RAM
Ya well…what happes when one of these so called RAMS decides that we are a threat to it?
and so it begins. the take over by machines has begun.
RAM learns that you are looking up new ram decides to go out with a bang by killing the pc
lol its the beginning of Terminators!
tadan tan ta dan (that was the terminator theme).
Woot ^w^ now i can finnaly begin building my robot army, HP Banzai!
Like human eh?
I suppose you could get some “mentally challenge” memory.
sarah terminator chronicles spoilers!!!!!
I sure hope it would be implemented soon!
Baa RAM ewe…….
Christian Bale will play john conner in T4
@12 LOL
hmmm, I wonder if now my computer will be able to decide by itself to download movies for me based on my previous downloads
lol ur PC will load ya Porn before u are ready then skipp to the good bits
The computers became self aware at 12:03 pm 7/08/09
@12 and 19.
Guys you both gave me a good laugh at that, cheers! haha
The Matrix has begun!
Skynet has begun! (*not that knockoff called Matrix *cough)
those frakking toasters are getting smarter!
I knew Dwight Schrute was right.
hp sucks anyway..
if you want some real tech/gadget news try www.hillos.info
sounds great but scary somehow…
IF my pc start surfing for p0rn by it own,
will be the begging of the end,
wtf I ll do then ?? =P
As a consequence all standard dialog windows will have “maybe” button in addition to OK and Cancel
Lets not forget this lil bit of the future this phone concept makes me pitch a tent. http://www.rlslog.net/nokia-started-research-on-flexible-cell-phone/
That’s only a concept… it isn’t viable even for the next 5 to 10 years.. (the nokia sh*t)
Bad, bad, bad, toaster! I told you that I like bread lightly browned, not burnt! And knock off that squealing when I unplug you!
news pf tomorrow : HP is now offically Cyberdyne
HP = SkyNet!
The time is now Neo….
Haven’t we learned anything from Terminator and The Matrix ?
Be careful what you wish for guys……..
Yes we have learned some Terminator. Does anyone know which mental institution they keeping Sarah Connor? We need to free her so that she can go destroy HP b4 its to late
@34 Helen
You beat me to it! I was gonna ask when SkyNet was coming online…
OH MY GOD…. Just hope it don’t start thinking like a woman or we are all screwed..
Has anyone seen I,Robot? This is awesome and all but scary at the same time. What will this lead to?
If I’m reading into it right and this constitues the first approach to working neural network memory components, we’re probably heading down a pretty awesome & promising path, not the beginning of an AI rebellion. Do some further checking around instead of regurgitating the same Terminatoresque sci-fi claptrap comments plz.
@12, funny stuff. I can see it now, computers needing thearpy.
Regarding the Terminator/Matrix comments, I suspect that as long as the OS is made by MS, we won’t have anything to worry about. KILL ALL HUMANS… KILL ALL HU [BSOD].
Results of HP’s memristor test
memristor memory chip + Mac = hate Bill
memristor memory chip + Linux = hate Bill
memristor memory chip + XP = kill Bill
memristor memory chip + XP SP 1 = kill Bill
memristor memory chip + XP SP 2 = kill Bill
memristor memory chip + XP SP 3 = kill Bill
memristor memory chip + Vista = kill Bill
memristor memory chip + Vista SP 1 = kill Bill
This proves that the chip is working
And thats how SkyNet was born
It does look like the beginning of ‘I, Robot’. As such, I totally object to it.
LOL! to the comment prior to this one.
Ok, The scientist/tech wizz guy said this technology has been around since the dawn of time, so Im thinking its already been implemented somehow somewhere and this is a release of that old technology! Even Japan is 50 years in the past; …What senior nazi’s have at their disposal is beyond our comprehension and what they should really be releasing is free 8800gtx’s to everyone!
I bet there’s graphics cards that’ll swamp us in plasma and take us to the alamo when it happened. Mark my words.
@14 there are thousands of theories about its actually making them happen and it looks like they have.
Please learn RJ twat
LOL! to the comment prior to this one.
Ok, The scientist/tech wizz guy said this technology has been around since the dawn of time, so Im thinking its already been implemented somehow somewhere and this is a release of that old technology! Even Japan is 50 years in the past; …What senior nazi’s have at their disposal is beyond our comprehension and what they should really be releasing is free 8800gtx’s to everyone!
I bet there’s graphics cards that’ll swamp us in plasma and take us to the alamo when it happened. Mark my words.
proper sh!t
i, for one, welcome our new CPU overlord.
MASTER CONTROL WILL TAKE OVER. PLEASE CALL TRON.
Damn, my ISP doesn’t allow enough download quota to accommodate both me and my computer as well.
One of us has to go …
@42 LOL hahahaha…
@19 Hehe… As long as it doesn’t link to radioshack and weird electronic blueprints and excessive wiring…
@49 Well it looks like a big leap towards the singularity and frankly no one can foretell what the turnout will be. Even the guy that coined the phrase and works with the development of this kind of stuff is scared while fascinated at the same time. A link for those interested
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity
Personally I believe we can’t even fathom what lies ahead. That said I believe the human evolution will take a turn towards artificial augmentation with all the pros and cons that might entail. Not really afraid of machines wiping out humanity as humanity wiping out humanity - willingly, in unnoticeable small increments.
all these comments, and yet no one has made a doctor who reference.
The daleks must be here already.
well nows the time to invest all that money you have saved from downloading pirated thing and buy some HP Stock..
$48.09 a share… lol etrade here I come.. News:
Hewlett-Packard Company And Siemens Announces Sales Agreement
Hewlett-Packard Company To Acquire Exstream Software, LLC
Hewlett-Packard Company Declares Regular Dividend**
also invest in NewMedium.. that new DVD format they are $0.02 right now I put $100 down man.. imageine if those stocks rise to a measly $10 LOL 2700 x 10 = $27,000.00 LOL easy cash.. i just hope it does good soon haha
@Pegasus: “If I’m reading into it right and this constitues the first approach to working neural network memory components, we’re probably heading down a pretty awesome & promising path, not the beginning of an AI rebellion.”
this isn’t really a very good article. Try reading http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=missing-link-of-electronics instead… all this is is a new method of manufacturing non-volatile ram, not some blueprint for hardware based neural networks or anything to do with AI.
“Ya well…what happes when one of these so called RAMS decides that we are a threat to it?”
i’m sure the 4 inch long board will decide to kill you in your sleep
as long as we got e-bombs there won’t be any ai rebellion:D
@53 noonegotmyname,
“all these comments, and yet no one has made a doctor who reference.
The daleks must be here already.”
That’s because daleks aren’t intelligent robots, they’re cyborgs with a living creature controlling them, so smart memory has nothing to do with them.
As for the article; I’m not sure where the crap about computers making decisions came from. After reading about the memristor, all I can see is that it’s basically like flash memory, only more advanced. It doesn’t “know” things, it just “remembers” the contents after the power has been removed. In other words, you could shut off your system, then turn it back on and it would instantly be back to where you left it.
Of course this will make it even easier to use the “password in RAM” security hack, since the system can be switched off for days and still have the password in memory.
@29: LOL! with MS, its not actually that hard to believe
@40: “Has anyone seen I,Robot?” - that film sucks hard. go read the book, it’ll do you good. in fact, read anything by Asimov, including his essays on the future.
@52 and co: i cant see how this brings us even remotely closer to the singularity (really rather silly to invoke the concept here since all that has been built is a basic circuit building block - it has no more intelligence than the RAM in your computer, it just retains whichever of its two-pole positions it happens to be in when power is removed) - first it has to be adopted by circuit designers (which its creators admit may take a very long time, and may not happen at all) and then it has to be built into a very sophisticated processor/neural-net/call-it-what-you will.
and THEN someone has to program it to be a little bit cleverer than a human being.
sounds easy, but for all the wealth of processing power we have available compared with, say, the 80s, we still aren’t very good at creating artificial intelligence. in fact, we’re rubbish at it. the best we’ve managed so far is to create machines which can do an ok job at ACTING like they’re sentient. consider how much praise rockstar are getting for GTA4’s ‘realistic’ A.I. - its a huge leap forward, but a long way from being ‘clever’ in any way at all.
whenever we make big computing leaps it always takes years before programmers can fully harness the power available. it took millions of years of evolution to create our brains - writing a program that could successfully emulate a brain could take a team of genius programmers a lifetime, assuming they had all the necessary data to construct a complete model (and since our understanding of how brains actually work is rather limited…)
i’m not saying the singularity isnt going to happen (could be tomorrow for all i know), but realistically, its not likely to happen for a couple of CENTURIES yet. chances are, the human race will have gone back to the dark ages, or eradicated itself completely before then. and while its an interesting topic for debate, the memristor is an incredibly small step towards the giant leap a lot of people are talking about here.
Terminator Part 4: The Memristor Era…
Microsoft have been had this principle with Office for years whereby every so often the program whizzes of to some etherial height to find data that it thinks it knows about or put somewhere but actually only thought it did….. Ehh… its generally called a “memory leak”.