As I watch my khat bat a piece of hydrofoil across the storey or stare at nothing like he ’s pit , I ca n’t serve mean , " Gee I wish my computer was as bright as my khat . “ Scientists at IBM also thought it would be fun to have a computer as intelligent as a feline , so the jokesters created a computer that think like a cat .
Using 147,456 central processor ( compared to your information processing system , which uses one or two processor ) and 144 terabytes of main memory ( 100,000 prison term as much as your computer ) , the scientists simulate a cat ’s cerebral lens cortex . IBM research worker have previously model about 40 percent of a black eye ’s brain and a rat ’s full brain . ( If you ’re worried , the AP reports that IBM will not be producing a race of robocats . Whew . )
The computer suppose about 100 time slower than a hombre , but it forms thoughts the way a cat does .
The computer looked at Word and figured out what the images were . unlike parts of the computer worked together much like a brain would when trying to understand something . This move over scientists an opportunity to watch how a endure brain create thoughts — no one has regard how the one billion neuron and 10 trillion synapsis in cat ’s brain piece of work together .
scientist want to make a computer that call back more like the human head , too . Computers well march data , but can not reason with abstraction like the human brainpower . If these research worker make a computer that thinks more like a live brain , they predict they could discover more about everything from medicine to economics . Do n’t worry about this maturation leading to a computer like Hal . The technology is n’t powerful enough to make a computer that thinks like the human mind . ( Yet . )
[ range courtesy ofCats in Clothes . ]
