[kj] TIME Magazine on The Singularity

[Brendan Quinn]

Kurzweil did an interesting speech on that topic for TED years ago, although
typical boffin he launches straight into data without setting any context:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfbOyw3CT6A

If you're really into the nitty gritty this is a bit more detail:

http://library.thinkquest.org/C001501/the_saga/compare.htm

AKA the human brain is still a fraction of 1% of the power of the best
desktop PCs at the moment, but with exponential progress, some time between
2025 - 2035 will overtake us.

PS: If you add the processing power of GPUs and it's a slightly different
story again. And the comparison is desktop PCs vs the human brain not
supercomputers, which can already model many areas of the brain quite well.


-----Original Message-----
From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On
Behalf Of Frank Coleman
Sent: Friday, 11 February 2011 7:55 a.m.
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Subject: [kj] TIME Magazine on The Singularity

Anyone catch this?
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2048138,00.html?xid=feed-yaho
o-full-mostpopular

Well worth reading.

best,
FBC
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