Google's New Head of Engineering
Google's new Head of Engineering, Ray Kurzweil introduced his latest book: How to create a mind: the secret of human thought revealed . In his presentation he gave his vision that our brains have been provided with the neo-cortexraykurzweil in evolution , the wrinkled thin shell that lies over the brain and that entire groups of cells in it are actually nothing more than a group of pattern recognizers . Humans are born with 300 million of these pattern recognizers, in which fixed patterns have already been created. Then we learn to recognize these patterns and to add meaning to them in layers of increasingly higher abstraction. So patterns through which we recognize letters, to words, to concepts such as love, happiness, etc. The same applies to images where we give meanings.
His view of the brain is that our identity is caused by the history of stored impressions that we have had in our lives. Intelligence is seeing the analogy of impressions with similar other impressions. For example, a good scientist can make a discovery by seeing an analogy in another scientific field. For example, Darwin , who got the slow adaptations in evolution from the work of the geologist Lyell , who saw that a minuscule stream of water over millions of years can create a Grand Canyon.
Because computer technology and software algorithms make ukraine mobile phone number list quantum steps every two years and not only by Moore's law , it will be possible, according to Ray Kurzweil, within twenty years to reproduce all the impressions in the brain of a person in a digital medium. And thus literally to have copied the mind of that person.
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The question that remains is whether that copy is also conscious and then there is the question of what consciousness is. This was discussed extensively and lively.
IBM's Watson shows that knowledge in the cloud can be unlocked in an impressive way with a computer . watsonjeopardyThat is the computer program that won Jeopardy (a very popular quiz show in the US) from the two best human players. Watson looks at billions of documents and makes statements about true or false with the help of statistical analysis ( Baysean ) and with astonishing results. Is Watson aware?
Currently, SIRI on the iPhone uses the same type of statistical analysis to answer your questions. Microsoft's Bing also has this type of technology locked into it, which is provided by Wolfram Alpha in Bing .