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leg
September 28th, 2006, 08:52 AM
http://www.sci-tech-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=12300CLPXG5X
Intel will deliver the company's first quad-core processors for high-performance PCs and servers Relevant Products/Services from Dell in November
Intel officials already have indicated that chips with dozens of cores might be possible by the end of this decade. The company hinted that, 10 years down the line, chips with hundreds of cores might be possible.
AMD already has demonstrated a working "4-by-4" quad-core platform aimed at serious gamers. That platform is reportedly powerful enough to simultaneously play games, record videos, and encode MP3s without suffering a performance hit.

For those of you that didn't see this already, I thought this might interest you. Furthermore, I find it amusing that this is on pace with some of the predictions set forth in "The Singularity is Near" by Ray Kurzweil.

For those of you that haven't read it, he predicts the coming of super intellegent machines, true AI, and a lot of other futuristic stuff to be fully immersed in our society before 2050. This is all based on the fact that several key fields of technology are advancing at expodental rates and even these rates are growing expodentally at times. There are ofcourse several hurrdles to overcome, but I look around today and I think, "so far so good." :)

Zogo
September 28th, 2006, 09:51 PM
but I look around today and I think, "so far so good." :)

I won't be saying that when I'm being hunted down by skynet and those robots from i, robot.

this seems like overkill for my needs. but being able to encode mp3s, record video and play games sounds ok.

N4P4LM
September 28th, 2006, 10:53 PM
expodental

expo - a collection of things for public display
dental - of, relating to, or for the teeth

i love when people put teeth out on display.

leg
September 29th, 2006, 07:40 AM
Heh, yea my bad.

And yes zogo, that's one of the things we must avoid. We must maintain superiority over the robots. We should have the ability to increase our "brain power" so to speak, to keep pace with them, but there is a potential that they can be configured to attack us humans. However, I believe we will not even come to this point unless we stop wanting to attack each other.

Zogo
September 29th, 2006, 08:38 PM
I think we've lost control of technology..in the area of databases. so much information is stolen these days.

Vr_
September 29th, 2006, 09:51 PM
im excited to see what will happen in the time up to 2050. i cant wait to see how/what techonology changes!

leg
September 29th, 2006, 11:17 PM
And so much information has been securely kept. Ofcourse, there are going to be problems with newer technology, but the advantages seems out weigh the disadvantages.

Ignatz
September 29th, 2006, 11:19 PM
Grey goo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_goo), here we come

jabroni
September 30th, 2006, 01:04 AM
what is the matrix?

Zogo
September 30th, 2006, 08:43 PM
And so much information has been securely kept. Ofcourse, there are going to be problems with newer technology, but the advantages seems out weigh the disadvantages.

lol, really I don't think so..echelon probably has everything ever sent on the Internet.

anyway yea it seems fine until someone steals your identity.