Decision Tree Regarding How to Construct a Turing Android
This is a guide to designing Turing Androids. The first decision is what materials to use.
It is very tempting to start out with a human and make modifications in DNA, as well as designing organic
and inorganic add-ons. Modifications to DNA must be made on-the-fly because we don't have the time
to make mods, test the results and raise human children to adults.
Using cells is a very questionable path, but one which can be considered by some. Lets call that the
transhumanist approach and delegate it to another site.
Neural Computation discusses using Charles River Rat neurons, Feb 2007
"the number of columns per unit of cortex in the human being almost twice that seen in the dolphin brain"
www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/109690034/ABSTRACT?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
Insert quantum mechanics here
Center for Extreme Quantum Information Theory at MIT
http://xqit.mit.edu/people.htm
Would you join with Yet Another Robot Program?
http://eris.liralab.it/yarp/
Barney Pell
Better than Google?
Powerset
Co-founder and CEO Barney Pell harbors ambitions of out-Googling Google with technology that he
says would let people use more natural language than terse keywords to do their searches. By
analyzing the underlying meaning of search queries and documents on the Web, Powerset aims to
produce much more relevant results than the current search king's.
Problem is, Powerset's technology eats computing power like a child munches Halloween candy. The
little 22-person company would have to spend more than $1 million on computer hardware, two-thirds of
that just to handle occasional spikes in visitor traffic, plus a bunch of people to staff a massive data
center and write software to run it. That's when Pell heard about Elastic Compute Cloud. He was sold.
Based on tests so far, using the Amazon site for part of the company's computing power could cut its
first-year capital costs alone by more than half.
... Highly anticipated search upstart Powerset Inc. plans to use the Amazon computing service, even
though it's still in test mode, to supplement its own computers when it launches its service sometime next
year.
he believes that a compromise between top-down and bottom-up may actually create true AI
- natural language search is a huge revolution in 5-20 years
- 411 calls are being increasingly handled automatically
- Ron Caplan at ACC 2005 said he predicted dialogue and ambiguity-savvy interfaces in 5 years, we’re
on track to that which means by 2010.
American Automatic Control Council
American Control Conference
HP 64 processor systems using Linux
http://www.news.com/HP-plugs-Linux-for-64-processor-servers/2100-7344_3-5568460.html
A start up company named Tilera has a 64 CPU chip.
http://www.tilera.com/
Ultrastrong and Stiff Layered Polymer Nanocomposites, in the Oct. 5, 2007 issue of Science.
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/318/5847/80
Science 5 October 2007: Vol. 318. no. 5847, pp. 80-83.
The authors are Paul Podsiadlo, Amit K. Kaushik, Ellen M. Arruda, Anthony M. Waas, Bong Sup Shim,
Jiadi Xu, Himabindu Nandivada, Benjamin G. Pumplin, Joerg Lahann, Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy, and
Nicholas A. Kotov, all of whom are from UMich and five of whom are from Kotov's lab.
The abstract reads:
Nanoscale building blocks are individually exceptionally strong because they are close to ideal, defect-
free materials. It is, however, difficult to retain the ideal properties in macroscale composites. Bottom-up
assembly of a clay/polymer nanocomposite allowed for the preparation of a homogeneous, optically
transparent material with planar orientation of the alumosilicate nanosheets. The stiffness and tensile
strength of these multilayer composites are one order of magnitude greater than those of analogous
nanocomposites at a processing temperature that is much lower than those of ceramic or polymer
materials with similar characteristics. A high level of ordering of the nanoscale building blocks, combined
with dense covalent and hydrogen bonding and stiffening of the polymer chains, leads to highly
effective load transfer between nanosheets and the polymer. This is interesting because the materials
involved are dirt cheap (literally, in one case) and the process is simple, if slow and probably expensive.
His lab consists of:
http://www.engin.umich.edu/dept/che/research/kotov/people.index.htm
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This is a guide to designing Turing Androids. The first decision is what materials to use.
It is very tempting to start out with a human and make modifications in DNA, as well as designing organic
and inorganic add-ons. Modifications to DNA must be made on-the-fly because we don't have the time
to make mods, test the results and raise human children to adults.
Using cells is a very questionable path, but one which can be considered by some. Lets call that the
transhumanist approach and delegate it to another site.
Neural Computation discusses using Charles River Rat neurons, Feb 2007
"the number of columns per unit of cortex in the human being almost twice that seen in the dolphin brain"
www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/109690034/ABSTRACT?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
Insert quantum mechanics here
Center for Extreme Quantum Information Theory at MIT
http://xqit.mit.edu/people.htm
Would you join with Yet Another Robot Program?
http://eris.liralab.it/yarp/
Barney Pell
Better than Google?
Powerset
Co-founder and CEO Barney Pell harbors ambitions of out-Googling Google with technology that he
says would let people use more natural language than terse keywords to do their searches. By
analyzing the underlying meaning of search queries and documents on the Web, Powerset aims to
produce much more relevant results than the current search king's.
Problem is, Powerset's technology eats computing power like a child munches Halloween candy. The
little 22-person company would have to spend more than $1 million on computer hardware, two-thirds of
that just to handle occasional spikes in visitor traffic, plus a bunch of people to staff a massive data
center and write software to run it. That's when Pell heard about Elastic Compute Cloud. He was sold.
Based on tests so far, using the Amazon site for part of the company's computing power could cut its
first-year capital costs alone by more than half.
... Highly anticipated search upstart Powerset Inc. plans to use the Amazon computing service, even
though it's still in test mode, to supplement its own computers when it launches its service sometime next
year.
he believes that a compromise between top-down and bottom-up may actually create true AI
- natural language search is a huge revolution in 5-20 years
- 411 calls are being increasingly handled automatically
- Ron Caplan at ACC 2005 said he predicted dialogue and ambiguity-savvy interfaces in 5 years, we’re
on track to that which means by 2010.
American Automatic Control Council
American Control Conference
HP 64 processor systems using Linux
http://www.news.com/HP-plugs-Linux-for-64-processor-servers/2100-7344_3-5568460.html
A start up company named Tilera has a 64 CPU chip.
http://www.tilera.com/
Ultrastrong and Stiff Layered Polymer Nanocomposites, in the Oct. 5, 2007 issue of Science.
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/318/5847/80
Science 5 October 2007: Vol. 318. no. 5847, pp. 80-83.
The authors are Paul Podsiadlo, Amit K. Kaushik, Ellen M. Arruda, Anthony M. Waas, Bong Sup Shim,
Jiadi Xu, Himabindu Nandivada, Benjamin G. Pumplin, Joerg Lahann, Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy, and
Nicholas A. Kotov, all of whom are from UMich and five of whom are from Kotov's lab.
The abstract reads:
Nanoscale building blocks are individually exceptionally strong because they are close to ideal, defect-
free materials. It is, however, difficult to retain the ideal properties in macroscale composites. Bottom-up
assembly of a clay/polymer nanocomposite allowed for the preparation of a homogeneous, optically
transparent material with planar orientation of the alumosilicate nanosheets. The stiffness and tensile
strength of these multilayer composites are one order of magnitude greater than those of analogous
nanocomposites at a processing temperature that is much lower than those of ceramic or polymer
materials with similar characteristics. A high level of ordering of the nanoscale building blocks, combined
with dense covalent and hydrogen bonding and stiffening of the polymer chains, leads to highly
effective load transfer between nanosheets and the polymer. This is interesting because the materials
involved are dirt cheap (literally, in one case) and the process is simple, if slow and probably expensive.
His lab consists of:
http://www.engin.umich.edu/dept/che/research/kotov/people.index.htm
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