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(CNN) -- Making computers behave like humans has taken another step forward.

IBM on Thursday announced it has created a chip designed to imitate the human brain's ability to understand its surroundings, act on things that happen around it and make sense of complex data.

Instead of requiring the type of programming that computers have needed for the past half-century, the experimental chip will let a new generation of computers, called "cognitive computers," learn through their experiences and form their own theories about what those experiences mean.

The chips revealed Thursday are a step in a project called SyNAPSE (Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics). The two chip prototypes are a step toward letting computers "reason" instead of reacting solely based on data that has been pre-programmed, IBM says.

"Imagine traffic lights that can integrate sights, sounds and smells and flag unsafe intersections before disaster happens," said Dharmendra Modha, the project leader for IBM Research. "Or imagine cognitive co-processors that turn servers, laptops, tablets and phones into machines that can interact better with their environments."

The chips' processing power is not unlike that of IBM's Watson supercomputer that beat two human champions on "Jeopardy!" this year.

Other scenarios the researchers envision: A computing system that could monitor the world's water supply -- measuring things like temperature, pressure, wave height and acoustics -- then give a warning when it thinks a tsunami is likely.

Or imagine a sensor that a grocery store owner could use to read sights, smells and temperatures and give an alert that produce may have gone bad.
"The computers we have today are more like calculators," Modha told tech blog VentureBeat. "We want to make something like the brain. It is a sharp departure from the past."

One of the prototype cores contains what amounts to 262,144 programmable synapses, and the other contains 65,536 learning synapses.

Using the chips, IBM researchers have built a "brain wall" at a San Jose, California, lab. The long-term goal? A one-square-centimeter chip with the equivalent of 1 million neurons and 10 billion synapses.

Modha and other researchers say that using current programming techniques, any computer that approached what they're trying with the SyNAPSE project would have to be larger and would suck up more energy.

For the next phase of SyNAPSE, IBM has assembled teams from Columbia University, Cornell University, the University of California, Merced and the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Phase 2 of the project has been rewarded $21 million in funding from DARPA, the U.S. military's research branch.
Woo hoo!

Can someone remind me why we're trying to design computers that are like humans?
 
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You really don't know why? Really?
 
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sexbots

everyone knows that
 
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vanster wants robot led genocide so humanity can feel what his wigwam ancestors felt
 
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You really don't know why? Really?
I guess so humans can just sit around, jack off, get drunk, and play video games all day.
 
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IBM has turned out to be a very cool company these past several years . . . actually for a while now.
 
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we wont need to jack off when we have sexbots to **** and suck us while we play wow
 
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You really don't know why? Really?
It isn't that outlandish a question. A disturbing preponderance of humans that ever touch a computer are ****tards. Imagine what kind of dickery will be involved when interacting with people that are computers.
 
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Woo hoo!

Can someone remind me why we're trying to design computers that are like humans?
Because
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imagine the goatsebot that can be sent like a singing telegram to people
 
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IBM has turned out to be a very cool company these past several years . . . actually for a while now.
If by 'for a while now' you mean 'the better part of the entire tech age' then yeah, I guess so.

You say the most innocently stupid ****.
 
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Woo hoo!

Can someone remind me why we're trying to design computers that are like humans?
Military operations.
 
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Dude I totally was just about to post this
 
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not sure if the way IBM through one of its european subsidiaries provided the german reich with punch cards technlogy (lol) so they could carry out a census of jews and gypsies can be considered super cool
 
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The scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.

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If by 'for a while now' you mean 'the better part of the entire tech age' then yeah, I guess so.

You say the most innocently stupid ****.
You must have stopped reading at ". . ." and missed the "for a while now."

Perhaps you just don't understand the popular usage of the phrase. Here is some more reading that will help you determine the meaning of the phrase:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/While

quite a while - Idioms - by the Free Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.

for quite a while
 
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When humans invent real AI and free net+ energy, **** will get really interesting.
 
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I guess so humans can just sit around, jack off, get drunk, and play video games all day.
Precisely.

We have already invented machines that can hear better, see farther, and lift heavier objects than we can. We've recently invented machines that can beat us at chess and Jeopardy. The next logical step is creating machines capable of abstract thought; they will be crude at first, but they'll get better. I don't know how one philosophically defines consciousness, and I don't know if these machines will believe they have a consciousness, but the time is coming when we're going to be tempted to ask them about it.

When automobiles were first invented, a popular spectacle was to have them race a man on foot. That pastime stopped long ago.
 
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