AI Set to Exceed Human Brain Power
Tuesday, July 25th, 2006 | Justin Bugajski
While the pace of advancement in machine intelligence has been slower than most have hoped, progress is being made. New approaches are needed in order to assimilate and understand the petabytes of information being generated by our 21 century society. Existing methods of computing and analysis need to evolve significantly in order to keep up with the rising data tide, else it will be all we can do just to process and store all the information being created let alone gleen useful knowledge from it.
Nick Bostrom, Director of the Future of Humanity Institute at the UK’s Oxford University, said that AI-inspired systems were already integral to many everyday technologies such as internet search engines, bank software for processing transactions and in medical diagnosis. “A lot of cutting edge AI has filtered into general applications, often without being called AI because once something becomes useful enough and common enough it’s not labelled AI anymore.”
But Bostrom said that traditional “top-down” approaches to AI, in which programmers coded machined to cope with specific situations, were being supplemented by “bottom-up” systems inspired by enhanced understanding of the neural networks of the brain, leading to more subtle forms of AI.
“The more we discover how the human brain achieves intelligence the more we’ll be able to use the same computational architecture and logarithms in computers,” said Bostrom.
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