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  • LISTENING!

  • This is the bit where all the religious people step in. And they shouldn't. Eventually religion will die out, and science will prevail. There's no doubt about that.

  • @Zlyzer False dichotomy.

  • @AthosAmo You know what I'm saying. Yes the two statements sort of contradict, but stop pussyfooting around.

  • @Zlyzer That's not what a false dichotomy is. In this case, it is your presenting science as being opposed to religion, when not all religions are opposed to science.

  • @AthosAmo That doesn't mean that all religion isn't invalid. Which is what I'm saying. Science alone explains everything. Religion is unnecessary.

  • @Zlyzer Some scien-TISTS -not science- can explain your love for your spouse as material, totally pre-determined-by-physics chemical responses, but it is mere wishful thinking so long as it isn't proven. And it's funny if someone would wish that it were so.

    Abiogenesis is no better than the Flying Spaghetti Monster, as both are unfalsifiable, making both not even theories, nor hypotheses, in science. Let alone facts.

  • @CandleLightForLifes Why are you spamming her videos? Do you think people are actually going to read your comments? After they have read your first few comments, they will quickly realise that you have great difficulty making any sense - and so scroll past all of the other comments posted by your other accounts/profiles until they find something which does make sense. Just because you have great difficulty making sense of the world, it doesn't necessarily mean that everyone else "needs" to.

  • I thought the Blue Brain project and the SYNAPSE project were both the same project. Interesting. IBM's obviously much bigger than I originally thought.

    That reminds me; I must get some more cinnamon flavoured toothpaste.

  • @CandleLightForLifes Many of me?

  • @CandleLightForLifes There is only one me, and your comment doesn't make sense. You said "harder then they already need to be"; which seems to imply that you think some things "need" to be difficult to understand.

  • The post on the Irritable Bowel Syndrome Forum was probably posted by some ass-hole while I was in the bathroom. I was there for quite a while; a number of times, I think.

  • Just to be clear - I have no idea what the Irritsable Barrel sidabome Fworrm is, or how to even spell it. So it definitely wasn't me!

  • Ignore my first post, it was just a fluke - if that's the correct way to spell it of course. I couldn't possibly verify that, because I don't know how to spell it! See my previous post for evidence.

  • @MistafiedEDU Mehbeh...

  • @BaopuziMaster I'm trying to learn the past, not forget. I'm not a sheeple. I wish you luck, as well! Take care!

  • @DontBattleThatYouLuv I'm not flagging anything.

  • It won't be long before chips are inserted in human brains to control behavior and ultimately thoughts. They'll be mandated first on drunk drivers, recidivist offenders (especially sex offenders), terrorist suspects at Gitmo - all the socially expendible types. Where it might go from there is anyone's guess.

  • Smart chips everywhere! Smart chips are in/on just about all manufactured products. Right now, as mentioned it is for marketing trends. But soon, with chips in our clothing fabric, shoes, accesories, etc., stores can and do track us inside their premises; but the chip-readers are not strong enough to go outside the store. But if chip-readers are placed every 50-100 feet throughout the town/city we live in, say in traffic signs; they will be tracking us via our clothing, everywhere we go.

  • 5:28 - 5:35 love it! :D your intelligence level blows mine away, so i'm humbled!

    ~outward change begins within~

  • CIGZ NO!

    WEED YES!

  • Are you a smoker, or is that lighter for candles?

  • I was thinking someone would bioengineer a virus to 'eat' itself but the MIT thing is nice and all. Now, on the bigger things, will that chip give me Saiyan powers?

  • @HollywoodIsBoring If I'm a kid at 30, how old are you? And what agenda are you talking about?

  • @HollywoodIsBoring I like that you mention the difference between a girl and a woman...not many do that. Like you say, drones. It's no longer that once you are 18+ you are considered a man or a woman, because people act childish. I guess if you want to spam on my comment like I am everyone, then you have the problem. The good thing about being intelligent is knowing the difference between what is true and what is hearsay. However, only a fool would pass something off as of no importance.

  • @HollywoodIsBoring You DO realize that I am only one human, right?

  • you are quite articulate when you speak of these things! thank you for sharing your ideas on good ol youtube!

    In my opinion, there are about to be some major understandings where artificial intelligence is concerned...you gotta think, whatever technology they release for public scrutinization, is probably 50 or more years old.

    misapplication of technology or information has been the problem for too long! let's go Girl Power!

    ~Outward Change Begins Within~

  • @MistafiedEDU Like how Google can only find 10% of the internet through it's searches?

  • @PsychologySolutions Do you know me, personally?

  • My worries about the chip are evident...mind control. I worry about the dragon, because if it forces cells to kill themselves, how can it not affect other cells?

  • At 2:21 she had a lighter in her hand. Does she smoke? Hmmm. That would surprise me...

  • this video made me laugh

  • /watch?v=oozFn2d45tg&feature=c­hannel_video_title this speech talks about the software hurdles that we need to overcome in order to create an A.I.

  • feet

  • This is how Skynet begins!!!

  • With in year there coming out with chip to implant in your thumb you can use like a Key to open your car and start it. Sencar on door nob's to unlock when you grab the nob. Buy stuff at stores just by picking it up and when you leave it pay for it no more waiting in lines to check out. Kimberly Please think about signing up online to America Got Talent in October I really do think you could win I know for fact you would have won this year your way better then any of telent they had.

  • "I'm not being vague: Somethingawful is a website." Classic. I agree with you Kim, but I would take it a step further: A computer that resembles a brain, that could pass the Turing test, would completely change the world. It would revolutionize technology, medicine. It would be the gift that would keep on giving. It's a lot more than vegetables.

  • Very cool movie. I don't understand viruses so I'm going to nod my head and I don't understand the concept of "Mind" so I'm going to keep my mouth shut and let you shine you're AWESOME! Good Reporting!!!!! :)

  • @InternetObservations

    I know what to do.

    Bake pot brownies to chillax.

  • @InternetObservations

    That's not how this works. You have to have two separate sentences.

  • We're dead and gone... sorry kids, there won't be 401k 4U!

  • Oh joy, you did a video on something in my field of study ( IBM chip). I was so excited to hear about this when it came out. Since the brain has rather specialized centers, a computer with one for this, and things like temporal difference learning and such would be able to solve so many social questions we may have. Many even psychophysicists wouldn't be able to solve. And then we could have actual scientific laws in psychology and sociology, instead of rules of thumb, neatO.

  • The IBM effort is likely more marketing than substance at this point. We're still too far away from understanding how the brain works to create effective machines that emulate it. I'm sure the hardware will be useful for research purposes and probably even produce some nice applications, but human level intelligence is much more than any random neural architecture or probability games with huge data sets.

    "We already have machines that do that" would be a common theme for a long time ;)

  • Is it a trap?

  • Actually, they've long solved the "cinnamon flavored toothpaste" problem -- that's the secret purpose behind Supermarket Loyalty cards. They give a discount in order to correlate your age, zip code, etc. with your exact purchases (information worth far more to marketing strategists than the 5% off). Google is even more data-driven -- they track exactly who clicks on what, where, and why (as every YouTube Partner knows). For capitalists, nothing is private, everything is market intelligence.

  • What the fuck??? I thought this was a Pokémon video! Where is the God damn Pokémons??!

  • OK, 'they' may be able to make computers that can do ever more jobs that humans used to do, but I don't believe there's any reason to believe that they can create something that's sentient (if that's what 'artificial intelligence' means). Any suggestion that they're approaching that achievement looks to me like propaganda.

  • 1.HP seems to be part of this project, so I think that this chip is based on memristors and HP also have a project that would cover the Earth with a large number of sensors, it is called Central Nervous System for the Earth (CeNSE).

  • @Tialkannos 2.And speaking of processors, there is a stochastic processor project which claims to be 1000x faster than current deterministic processors, the GP5 by Lyric Semiconductor and in the future quantum computers could theoretically be many orders of magnitude faster. With the possibility to reach the limits of computing in the universe, with black holes computers.

  • @Tialkannos 3.In regards to the brain emulation projects in general, I think it's not a matter of if can be done, but when. For those interested about the details of such systems, look for a technical report called "Whole Brain Emulation: A Roadmap".

  • @Tialkannos 4.And the Blue Brain Project hopes to have a complete brain in 10 years, what I find strange is that maybe this will be the first example of strong AI, and will be based on the biological model, to me it would be almost the same as if the first flying machine heavier than air was not a plane, but an artificial bird, with its bones, muscles, tendons, feathers ...

  • @Tialkannos 5.And if it is possible to simulate a brain on a supercomputer in 10 years, in a few more years would be possible to have such simulation on a personal computer. And what human would have the right to ownership of a machine with human capacity? This machine could have even more capacity than any human, so in my opinion the same rights applied to analog humans should apply to digital humans.

  • @Tialkannos 6.I think people do not realize the capabilities of our brains, I guess if we understand the principles of our intelligence, it would be greatly increased, I'm amazed that my brain can reproduce in just one night while dreaming something I saw only once during the day, something that can be complex as a video game, and if I were develop the same video game consciously, would take months or years of development, and the brain also reproduces more complex systems, like other brains.

  • @Tialkannos 7.And when the systems that form the intelligence are fully understood, would appear the option to make superhuman systems, and in my opinion such systems should have the responsibility of caring for humans.

  • @Tialkannos 8.To verify self-awareness and consciousness in this systems, I think it would be better to test the brain in a virtual body, this body does not need to have the complexity of a real body, the brain can easily adapt to artificial extensions, perhaps a realistic sensory system is little hard to do. And make simulated environments is not a problem, it is expected that video games do simulations that look similar to reality in 10-15 years.

  • @Tialkannos

    How does letting a system play out in a simulated environment test whether the consciousness is simulated or real?

  • @Tialkannos 9.And with the development of computing, should have a time that there will be more virtual people than real people. Another important thing, if is a completely virtual existence, this simulation would not need to occur with a time parallel to our own time, with enough processing you could simulate an entire virtual life in just one real day as example.

  • @Tialkannos 10.Thus the intelligence technologies would cause a revolution in society, philosophy, morality, human rights, capitalism etc.. And there would be the obsolescence of the analog man, after all, why beings who can live in a simulated environment and have any kind of experience would want to dispute a world with limited resources and subject to laws like the second law of thermodynamics.

  • @Tialkannos

    The idea of the 'obscelescence of the analog man' is very dangerous - in my own (as in all cases, *influenced*) opinion anyway. I can see sinister reasons for pushing it, and I can see emotional reasons for accepting it- such as, it being exciting and seeming enlightened , and I think these two motives can combine- tho only a very few would ever reap the rewards of pushing the idea. To the best of my ability, I can see no reason for believing it possible.

  • @Tialkannos 11.Currently, a person takes decades to reach the level of expertise required to perform many of the existing jobs, if you create an artificial system that performs the same function, it would be easy to replicate this system almost instantly, in this situation I do not know how the capitalist system could continue.

  • @Tialkannos The capitalist system is already disintegrating -- bifurcating into a high-tech elite and a low-tech "market" of marginalized workers. Corporations are doing well, in that industrial output is up, profit is up, and labor productivity is skyrocketing. Why is this? Because they're now dumping the lower-expertise, lower-productivity workers. In our intellect-driven technocapitalism, people need an IQ of over 105 to get a decent job -- and that permanently excludes over half the country.

  • @mediamancer That's interesting-- do you have a source?

  • @existentialistcat For marginal productivity of workers, see ""Sumner and Krugman on zero MP workers" (blog post), and for the role of raw intelligence in employment stratification see "IQ and Economic Success" (PDF) by Charles Murray.

  • @Tialkannos 12.And finally, what do you think about the technological singularity and transhumanism?

    And since you have an academic background in cognitive science, I wonder if you can explain in a simplified way about what kind of mathematics and computing the brain uses, and also on the main structures and capabilities of the brain.

  • The beauty of a computer that works more like the human brain is simple. Your brain is basically an advanced signal processing machine. It processes these signals via a complex (and poorly understood) series of pattern matching. So a brain-like computer allows us to create a 'brain' to receive input however we choose. The implications of an advanced version of this are profound - the example of vegetables in a store is weak one for a real application of this technology.

  • you are the cutest pyromaniac ever

  • I hope they can program it to have good taste in porn....

  • Draco and dragon have the same etymological origin.

  • This is the beginning of what is fiction in the movies the Terminator. But instead of it being machines taking over the world, i believe we the human being will become the machines we already dominata the Earth. combine nanotechnology, this chip, and all the science behind genetics and manipulation of our genes and i believe that will ussher a new humanity, one that is easily programmable, wont get sick and stays young.

  • i-robot

  • Pawn to king four

  • Anti-common-cold drug: More money to the establishment. The best common cold destroyer is the immunological system. Keep it strong. Eat a varied diet and mentally and physically exercise.

    IBM-brain: As you pointed out, it will be used for business purposes, which should scare us all. How about geting rid of money as means of quid pro quo, and actually start visualizing a more humane system of scientific inquiry?

  • You're pretty funny! Also, I would totally buy cinnamon toothpaste!

    1) The SYNAPSE computer could be used for creative work such as research, engineering etc. I wonder if the designers realize that they may be designing themselves out of a job.

    2) I think it's kind of funny how the discoverer of the virus killing drug wants to eradicate the common cold and flu rather than something like AIDS. I would think that curing AIDS would make him a candidate for winning the Nobel Prize.

  • Dear Kim, What is meant by what philosophers say: "the mind/body problem"? The brain as just a machine for remembering and calculating and reasoning as opposed to something else? Thank you for your time and attention.

  • @9nesteg i'll probably do a video on that soon, good idea :)

  • @9nesteg

    We usually think of the mind as a non-physical entity separate from the brain.

    The problem:

    If the brain is a non-physical thing, it is difficult to see how that can interact with the body.

  • On the subject of AI, which this is highly relevent to, I would recomend checking out neural networks. They're fantastic. They 'learn,' and a while ago a team of computer scientists working in this area got one to 'learn' how to fly, using instrument readings, a bowing 747 in a simulator. This might not seem that impressive, but they were able to throw novel situations (intense winds, storms, ect) at the network, which it was able to adapt to.

  • @11Agamemnon235

    Another thing, that makes quite a lot of sense, is that neural networks use fuzzy logics. Fuzzy logic is, I think, quite more representitive of everyday reasoning than predicate calculus;but, they both have their disadvantages and advanages. On an irrelevent sidenote, you could concivably base mathematics on a