The development of neural networks to create artificial intelligence in computers was originally inspired by how biological systems work. These “neuromorphic” networks, however, run on hardware that looks nothing like a biological brain, which limits performance.
Now, researchers from Osaka University and Hokkaido University plan to change this by creating neuromorphic “wetware.” The work is published in the journal Advanced Functional Materials.
While neural-network models have achieved remarkable success in applications such as image generation and cancer diagnosis, they still lag far behind the general processing abilities of the human brain. In part, this is because they are implemented in software using traditional computer hardware that is not optimized for the millions of parameters and connections that these models typically require.
Technology is progressing at such an insane pace, stuff that is real today I would have thought wouldve been science fiction for the rest of my life growing up.
It’s probably only going to continue to accelerate too, especially once Agi/Sentient Ai kicks off in the next decade or so.
If you consider that in the last 120 or so years we went from the first flight to landing on the moon in 60 some odd years, computers that take up an entire building to everyone having a powerful computer in their pocket, and discovering the first antibiotic to having gene-specific medicine and 3d-printed organs. It’s really nuts. Can’t wait to see what else is in store for the future and hope we can keep greedy fucks from ruining everything for us (more than it already is).
Yeah, its mind boggling how quickly technology is progressing, to think we lived for hundreds of thousands of years as hunter-gatherer cavemen and then ~ten thousand as early civilizations to the absolutely insane pace technology has progressed in the last 100~200 years is just crazy to think about.
We went from no electricity, medicine, engines, etc. to nuclear power plants, gene editing & vaccines, jet engine vehicles capable of breaking the sound barrier, and computers that are getting scarily close to replicating human behavior in just 1/100000th the time we spent running around the planet hunting animals in tribes…
It’s quite incredible when you think about it.
It’s going to ba a wild ride, I’m VERY happy to be only 20 because I will be able to experience so much of this stuff.
Well, hopefully we live to see all our wildest dreams come true and not our nightmares.
It better, things are going to get really bad and humanity is going to need more advanced technology to unfuck the world, provided we find the will to actually want to do it(collectively, i know there are many singular people who want to).
Well, considering how fast AI is progressing, I’d be surprised if humans aren’t obsolete in the coming decades- Literally just a few days ago we just achieved an absolutely mind boggling leap in ai capabilities- Most current Ai models use a method of attention & processing that problem solves questions by a ‘token’ system which represents how much data they can consume at once before forgetting it.
These tokens for most ai’s are in the thousands, with some of our best like GPT3-4 using about 8,000~32,000 tokens. Well a brand new method of token attention splitting just was debuted that changed this token limit from a few thousand, to 1 Billion tokens… Which would give an ai almost an unlimited amount of processing power to comprehend tasks.
Basically, Ai, once AGI and subsequently (and most likely very quickly afterwards) sentient ai is created- such a being would have the ability to solve every single question & problem humanity has ever been able to think of- and more, eventually ai will reach a near godlike intellect ability in which they’d essentially make every human on the planet obsolete in terms of intellect anyways…
Who knows how that’ll turn out though, It’ll all depend on if the Ai decides to be benevolent or not, and if they arent we are basically working towards our near guaranteed extinction.
Hopefully the ai will read culture novels and be impressed by the idea.