Da Vinci seemed truly excited by the possibility of people soaring through the skies like birds. One of da Vinci’s most famous inventions, the flying machine (also known as the "ornithopter"). |
The time has come! Now once again we believe it is possible to make machines which can think like humans and probable they may do it even better! The recent papers on pattern recognition, parallel processing, 'big data processing' and networks inspired by neural networking proves this is possible. (Example. Dharmendra S. Modha. Science 8 August 2014: 668-673. 2)Refer article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_data).
Moda et al have developed an efficient, scalable, and flexible non–von Neumann architecture that leverages contemporary silicon technology. They built a 5.4-billion-transistor chip with 4096 neurosynaptic cores interconnected via an intrachip network that integrates 1 million programmable spiking neurons and 256 million configurable synapses.The architecture is well suited to many applications that use complex neural networks in real time, for example, multiobject detection and classification. Whereas the previous chip was at a level of a worm's nervous system the latest chip is equivalent in complexity to the brain of a bee. It wont take much time for it to evolve to outpace humans.
When future machines powered by an array of chips of this kind in combination with future "Watsons" would certainly prove better than humans in cognition. Once this is realized feelings and emotions may follow! It is possible because emotions are the result of the complex interplay of neural circuits-we suddenly may discover that 'machines start to feel'!
Turing is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence. He had committed suicide by eating a KCN apple. |