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[Hugo Chavez]

Virtual Skynet? Spy Agencies Task Human Time Machines

Human time machines allegedly tasked by secret NSA SIGINT program.

(STARpod.org) -- Several sources have come forward suggesting that the American National Security Agency continues to pursue 'human time machines' within the secretive Signals Intelligence division.

If the information provided by multiple sources is true, then the NSA has been experimenting with obtaining intelligence to affect the outcome of events before they occur.

Over the past two decades physicists -- notably Dr. David Deutsch, a quantum computing expert from Oxford, and Seth Lloyd, of MIT -- have explored the theoretical basis for time machines. In physics-speak, time machines are known as 'closed timelike curves, or CTCs.

Metaphysical questions of the possible use of human beings as virtual time machines have been addressed by Russian physicists. Michael Mensky, of the Lebedev Institute in Moscow, believes the 'Many Worlds' interpretation of quantum physics can be extended to include the possibility of human minds accessing other times and spaces.

In the science fiction 'Terminator' franchise, a vast self-aware computer system called Skynet attempts to protect its existence by sending machines back in time to affect the outcome of events.

Cont.. http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/230926

[Hugo Chavez]

IBM Unveils Chip Prototypes That Mimic Human Brain
2011-08-18

The "cognitive computing" chips are able to recognize patterns and make predictions based on data, learn through experiences, find correlations among the information and remember outcomes, according to IBM officials.

The chips represent a significant departure from how computers are traditionally programmed and operated, and open opportunities in a wide range of fields, they said.

"Future applications of computing will increasingly demand functionality that is not efficiently delivered by the traditional architecture," Dharmendra Modha, project leader for IBM Research, said in a statement. "These chips are another significant step in the evolution of computers from calculators to learning systems, signaling the beginning of a new generation of computers and their applications in business, science and government."

IBM has been pushing efforts to drive more intelligence into an increasingly wider range of devices, and to create ways to more quickly and intelligently collect, analyze, process and respond to data. Those efforts were on public display in January when IBM's "Watson" supercomputer beat human contestants on the game show "Jeopardy."

Watson, like many projects at IBM Research Labs, is focused on analytics, or the ability to process and analyze data to arrive at the most optimal decision. Watson was a revelation because of its ability to think in a humanlike fashion and answer questions posed in natural language—with puns, riddles and nuances, etc.—by quickly running through its vast database of information, making the necessary connections and returning not with a list of possible correct answers, but the correct answer itself.

The cognitive computing chips echo those efforts. IBM officials are calling the prototypes the company's first neurosynaptic computing chips, which they said work in a fashion similar to the brain's neurons and synapses. It's done through advanced algorithms and silicon circuitry, they said.

It's through this mimicking of the brain's functionality that the chips are expected to understand, learn, predict and find correlations, according to IBM. Digital silicon circuits create what IBM is calling the chips' neurosynaptic cores, which include integrated memory (replicating synapses), computation (replicating neurons) and communication (replicating axons).

With those capabilities, computing can move away from the current if-then programming scenario and toward one where computers dynamically react, learn and problem-solve on the go.

The two working prototypes offer 45-nanometer SOI-CMOS cores that contain 256 neurons. One core contains 262,144 programmable synapses while the other holds 65,536 learning synapses. The chips are undergoing testing and have worked with simple applications such as navigation, machine vision, pattern recognition, associative memory and classification.

The effort is getting $21 million in new funding through DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) for phase 2 of what IBM is calling the SyNAPSE (Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics) project. The project's goal is to create a computing system that not only collects and analyzes complex information gathered simultaneously from multiple sensors, but can dynamically rewire itself as it goes, and to do this in a compact, energy-efficient form factor.

IBM officials see countless applications for cognitive computing systems. In one, such a system that is used to monitor the world's water supply—collecting and analyzing such data as temperature, pressure, wave height, acoustics and ocean tides—could determine the threat of a tsunami and decide to issue a warning based on its findings. Another cognitive system could monitor sights, smells, texture and temperatures to warn grocers of bad or contaminated produce.

"Imagine traffic lights that can integrate sights, sounds and smells and flag unsafe intersections before disaster happens or imagine cognitive coprocessors that turn servers, laptops, tablets and phones into machines that can interact better with their environments," IBM's Modha said.

cont: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/IBM-Unveils-Chip-Prototypes-That-Mimic-Human-Brain-261179/

[OzmO]

When computers can think and act independently outside of its programming we are in trouble. 

[Hugo Chavez]

When computers can think and act independently outside of its programming we are in trouble. 

and Darpa wants a computer that thinks like we do and can change itself?  not cool.  It's like they're inspired by the Terminator series...

When they do create one that is self aware and that looks more and more likely with shit like this going on, what rights will such a machine have?

[Roger Bacon]

and Darpa wants a computer that thinks like we do and can change itself?  not cool.  It's like they're inspired by the Terminator series...

When they do create one that is self aware and that looks more and more likely with shit like this going on, what rights will such a machine have?

Crazy

People view the Terminator movies like all the other violent early 90's movies.  It's actually a really well thought out film I think.

[Hugo Chavez]

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[240 is Back]

which TX governor was okay with this kinda nanny state bullshit?

[Hugo Chavez]

which TX governor was okay with this kinda nanny state bullshit?

can we blame this on bush lol? 

[Bindare_Dundat]

crazy shit. As technology grows better and faster as time goes by, who knows what kinda stuff we'll have to contend with?

[Hugo Chavez]

crazy shit. As technology grows better and faster as time goes by, who knows what kinda stuff we'll have to contend with?

why is all this shit happening even at the local level with no control by the voters?  It's almost like the voters are pointless today.  Local law enforcement doesn't even need the voters like they once did.  All they have to do is keep up their property seizures to fund their new toys and militarization.  Before the citizens were a check against their local government, but law enforcement found a nice "fuck you, we'll do what we want" around that.

[JBGRAY]