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Discussion: The Matrix...Just what was it's operating system anyway
Faust:
Ah I knew about the number rotation thing, but I originally thought that was maybe just because IBM was such a popular brand. Know i know better I guess. :) AIX maybe? That's an IBM thing isnt it?
Laukev7:
quote: On the other hand, the computer might be able to do a better job in a few seconds, if its artificial intelligence is somehow superior to that of a human's natural intelligence.
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Yes, as I said, computers would need an equal or superior artificial intelligence to that of humans in order to be better programmers, which I assume will probably be the case if ever we are taken over by machines. I am fully aware that processing power alone will only make a software type some random code really fast until a result is obtained, and it's possible that the output would not be the expected result.
I guess that an artificial intelligence made of electronic circuits and equal to our own would be feasible, since it has already been done by organic cells and nerves. Of course, this is likely to take a very long time, given that learning about our own brains is already a big challenge, let alone reproducing it with inorganic materials.
[ October 04, 2003: Message edited by: Laukev7 ]
Laukev7:
What does AIX stand for, anyway?
[ October 04, 2003: Message edited by: Laukev7 ]
Faust:
quote:I guess that an artificial intelligence made of electronic circuits and equal to our own would be feasible, since it has already been by organic cells and nerves. Of course, this is likely to take a very long time, given that learning about our own brains is already a big challenge, let reproducing it with inorganic materials.
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Well they'll have to find a way to store analog data in exceedingly small areas first, and it's going to be very hard to get a transistor down to the size of a neuron. I have heard of some guy who managed to hook up enough bits to claim that he had made something equivalent to a rat brain though, so I guess they're getting there.
AIX... nfi. AIX is uniX?
edit:
matrix machines seem to be very cold and very... well ordered. IMO machines will be by their nature mechanical, which may not be good for lateral thinking.
[ October 04, 2003: Message edited by: Faust ]
flap:
Apparently AIX = Advanced IBM unix
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