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Skynet, Judgement Day & Our New Robot Overlords

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Evolving Computer Developed; We Are Doomed

Researchers at the University of Oslo have developed a computer that evolves on its own using genetic algorithms to boost performance. See?

What their hardware does is par up "genes" in the hardware to find the hardware design that is the most effective to accomplish the tasks at hand. Just like in the real world, it can take 20 to 30 thousand generations before the system finds the perfect design to solve the problem, but this will happen in just a few seconds compared with the 8-900,000 years it took humans to go through the same number of generations.
Neat. Who knows how many practical applications this will have, but the idea of a computer evolving on its own to do what it needs to do is both cool and kind of terrifying. ?Adam Frucci
 
Nothing to be concerned about. Move along!

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Warner Brothers' Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines - 2003
 
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Along the same lines of creating a cybernetic organism. It's a LONG article but interesting

The Memory Hacker
Ted Berger has spent the past decade engineering a brain implant that can re-create thoughts. The chip could remedy everything from Alzheimer?s to absent-mindedness?and reduce memory loss to nothing more than a computer glitch

By Stephen Handelman | April 2007




In wet lab 412C on the University of Southern California?s Los Angeles campus, Vijay Srinivasan is poking a long, evil-looking needle at a slice of rat brain about half the size of a fingernail. All around him, coils of cable are piled near hulking microscopes. Glass vials and fluid-filled plastic dishes compete for space with spare keyboards and computer chips. The place looks more like a computer-repair shop than a world-class laboratory.

?Watch this,? says Srinivasan, a design engineer working with USC?s Center for Neural Engineering. A thin wire runs between the needle and a tiny silicon chip hooked up to a boxy signal transmitter. He flips a switch, and a series of small waves shimmers across a nearby screen?waves that mean exactly zilch to me. Watch what? I wonder.

Srinivasan explains that the chip is sending electric pulses through the needle into the brain slice, which is passing them on to the screen we?re watching. ?The difference in the waves? modulation reflects the signals sent out by the brain slice,? he says. ?And they?re almost identical in frequency and pattern to the pulses sent by the chip.? Put more simply, this iron-gray wafer about a millimeter square is talking to living brain cells as though it were an actual body part.

Ted Berger, Srinivasan?s boss and the mastermind behind the tangle of coils and electrodes, has arranged this demonstration to provide a small but profound glimpse into the future of brain science. The chip?s ability to converse with live cells is a dramatic first step, he believes, toward an implantable machine that fluently speaks the language of the brain?a machine that could restore memories in people with brain damage or help them make new ones. CON'T
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