Simulated Cat Brain Heralds the End of the World

[OmegaXIII]

Did Terminator and the Matrix not teach these guys anything? Don't fuck with AI!

 

[Susan Arendt]

Why does everyone always assume Artificial Intelligences will think 'Wahey, I think, therefor I am! LET'S FRY SOME MOTHERFUCKING HUMANS'

Because it's the conclusion organic intelligence tends to arrive at after a few years.

Wow. What a brilliantly succinct and sadly accurate way to sum that up. Very nicely done.

I am totally ripping that off the next time this argument comes up.

 

[Playbahnosh]

What The HELL? Okay, I can overlook the fact that they designed a kitty supercomputer, but why on Earth are they teaching it corporate logos?

Why aren't they showing the cyber-kitty nice pictures, like flowers, an apple, screenshots from Braid or whatever? Why do they have to indoctrinate the first ever semi-sentient kitty-computer with capitalist bullshit?

I think I found the cause why the machines kill us all...

 

[Xvito]

The funny thing to note is that HAL [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W5Am-a_xWw] got his name from IBM.

Also, cat-computer... AWESOME!

 

[Bat Vader]

The cat overlords cannot kill us. If they do who will change their litter boxes and feed them?

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I've said it before and I'll say it again,

Spoiler: End of the World

 

[Tolerant Fanboy]

Cat-brained supercomputer...

Aren't there a good half-dozen anime with that phrase in their premises?

 

[Asehujiko]

The computer uses 147,456 processors and 144 terabytes of memory, yet still thinks about 100 times slower than a real cat.

A problem that can be solved by just using the Roadrunner instead of building a gimped version out of a tiny research budget.

 

[SilentHunter7]

YES! I found it!


I think this describes the situation accurately.

 

[Danpascooch]

Why does everyone always assume Artificial Intelligences will think 'Wahey, I think, therefor I am! LET'S FRY SOME MOTHERFUCKING HUMANS'

Because it's the conclusion organic intelligence tends to arrive at after a few years.

Wow. What a brilliantly succinct and sadly accurate way to sum that up. Very nicely done.

I am totally ripping that off the next time this argument comes up.

No shit, you should copyright that quote quick, because if you don't I will

 

[Danpascooch]

I am a trans-humanist and this has made my day!
One step closer to a real AI.

What do you do with a real AI?
Make it do house chores? No
Make it treat the sick? No
Make it go to war? No
You make it improve itself! Boom! Tech-Singularity!

Yes, because cats have done a great job at self-improvement so far.

Anyway, yes, it is very exciting news. If they have simulated an entire animal brain and they get diferring results from what you'd expect on a cat that is very useful information. How much autonomous learning and memorization the rest of the nervous system can perform is something neurology itself is currently trying to determine. The numbers, by the way, are staggering at this point. Back in the day I read some scientist postulate that a human brain could use up maybe 4 terabites of memory. Aparently he was undershooting it by a whole lot. I realize this thing isn't an artificial brain but a brain emulator, but still...

I don't know about that first line, I mean, I bought a grey tabby, and within 2 weeks it had built a bigger, smarter cat. That new one tried to build a better one, but I had to end it and kill them both, can't let those f--king cats get too smart.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

So, in a few years time, the only way we'll be able to get our nice new computers to do any work is by giving them a tummy-tickle first?

I can see a problem.

 

[antigodoflife]

This seems simple enough to fix, create a nuclear powered computer running at 14.5PetaBytes with a mere 14445600 processors and then it should run the speed of a cats brain. Then all you have to do is times everything by 1000 and you have the human brain (probably too small.) so, 14445600000 processors running 14.16ExaBytes of powerz! (14 ZettaBytes to be safe) then you can make a true sentinal android brain ... just remember the self destruct system for when it starts to think about killing humans.

Doesn?t that sound fun and easy.