@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.

“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.

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

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.

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The daleks must be here already.

@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.

One of us has to go …

proper sh!t

Please learn RJ twat