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”Death as a friend” book illustration by Alfred Rethel, c.1851
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Collection of Jordie Bellaire
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Google’s Data Center Photoset
Ricostruzione del ‘British Bombe’. Il computer usato per decriptare i messaggi di Enigma - Bletchley Park museum
Artificial Intelligence Could Be on Brink of Passing Turing Test
One hundred years after Alan Turing was born, his eponymous test remains an elusive benchmark for artificial intelligence. Now, for the first time in decades, it’s possible to imagine a machine making the grade.
Turing was one of the 20th century’s great mathematicians, a conceptual architect of modern computing whose codebreaking played a decisive part in World War II. His test, described in a seminal dawn-of-the-computer-age paper, was deceptively simple: If a machine could pass for human in conversation, the machine could be considered intelligent.
Artificial intelligences are now ubiquitous, from GPS navigation systems and Google algorithms to automated customer service and Apple’s Siri, to say nothing of Deep Blue and Watson — but no machine has met Turing’s standard. The quest to do so, however, and the lines of research inspired by the general challenge of modeling human thought, have profoundly influenced both computer and cognitive science.
There is reason to believe that code kernels for the first Turing-intelligent machine have already been written.
“Two revolutionary advances in information technology may bring the Turing test out of retirement,” wrote Robert French, a cognitive scientist at the French National Center for Scientific Research, in an Apr. 12 Science essay. “The first is the ready availability of vast amounts of raw data — from video feeds to complete sound environments, and from casual conversations to technical documents on every conceivable subject. The second is the advent of sophisticated techniques for collecting, organizing, and processing this rich collection of data.”
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This is totes mah computer!
Standard Configuration & Specifications
• 433 (net5501-60) to 500 (net5501-70) Mhz AMD Geode LX single chip processor with CS5536 companion chip
• 256 (net5501-60) or 512 (net5501-70) Mbyte DDR-SDRAM, soldered on board
• 4 Mbit BIOS/BOOT Flash
• CompactFLASH Type I/II socket.
• UltraDMA-100 interface with 44 pins connector for 2.5” Hard Drive
• Serial ATA 1.0 interface for Hard Drive, with +5V and +12V power header
• 4 VIA VT6105M 10/100 Mbit Auto MDIX Ethernet ports, RJ-45, protected to 700W/40A Surge
• 2 Serial ports, DB9 and 10 pins internal header
• USB 2.0 interface, one internal, one external port
• Power LED, Disk LED, Error LED, Network LED’s
• Mini-PCI type III socket. (for t.ex. hardware encryption or wireless controller)
• PCI Slot, right angle 3.3V signaling only, dual PCI slot option
• 12 bit general purpose I/O, 20 pins header
• Temperature and voltage monitor
• Hardware watchdog
• Board size 6.3” x 6.5”
• Power using external power supply is 6-25V DC, max 20 Watt, protected with TVS
• Option for 5V supply using internal connector
• Operating temperature 0-60 °C
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slick, yet sensible. and with the computational power of at least twelve commodore 64s!
Life before the Computer…
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Crazy mouse solution. :o
