Terabyte?! Holy stuff!

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100 Terabytes = The angry game nerds super computer / Jesus' computer.

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[Muffinmix]

Quantum computers will make data storage figures pretty much irrelevant, since they'll be theoretically capable of storing more information than a common-day computer built out of all the matter in the universe. Try filling that up.

You might think this is far along but it might happen within 20-30 years or so.

[PhantomJack]

oh please, my dad has 4.

[Inv3rted]

Quantum computers will make data storage figures pretty much irrelevant, since they'll be theoretically capable of storing more information than a common-day computer built out of all the matter in the universe. Try filling that up.

You might think this is far along but it might happen within 20-30 years or so.

Bypassing the memory storage of the human brain is an interesting thought.

[blaman]

A few months ago I got really interested in quantum computers.
Scientists have built an 8 bit quantum computer that runs at 10 teraflops. For perspective that's faster then most super computers. The best part is they are looking to build QCs with millions of bytes, which may open the possibility for a true AI that can learn. (I read this when I was researching these things, forget where)

As Muffin said, we're not that far off. Soon we might be able to carry on a conversation with our computer... Or send out a droid to do underwater welding, for example, that can download it's self to another system if it gets damaged whilst submerged. (lol, BS Galactica :P)

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[n0cturni]

The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

[NickTheSushi]

Bypassing the memory storage of the human brain is an interesting thought.

If this is possiable, could the human mind become some sort of USB/Jump drive? :o

[blaman]

If this is possiable, could the human mind become some sort of USB/Jump drive? :o

I smell real life Cortex Command. :O

[Tom]

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The problem with making good AI isn't really processing power, but the fact that computers can only do what the are programmed to do. You could program a computer to "learn" but it can only accept learning if it is in the format it was programmed to read.

Lets say you where making an AI Autopilot. You might have to program different instructions for if there are 2 or 3 enemies. But what happens where there are 4? The computer cannot just make-up new tactics. Even if you programmed a flowchart with thousands of different possible paths, there still might be one condition that the thing doesn't have programmed and, that makes the whole system not work.

[Inv3rted]

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If you programmed a computer to learn, it could learn to learn through different methods.

hurr

[onyx6]

Quantum computers will make data storage figures pretty much irrelevant, since they'll be theoretically capable of storing more information than a common-day computer built out of all the matter in the universe. Try filling that up.

You might think this is far along but it might happen within 20-30 years or so.

I wonder what video games will be like then :o

[Tom]

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If you programmed a computer to learn, it could learn to learn through different methods.

hurr

You cannot simply program it to learn. If it was that easy, we would probably all ready robots like CP30.

[Inv3rted]

You cannot program something to learn with current methods of computing, you mean.

[Tom]

You cannot program something to learn with current methods of computing, you mean.

Yeah, but I don't think you could easily do it with a QC either.

[rkynick]

Or you know, you could skip to the punchline and recreate the human brain artificially...