Comments on: How ‘normal’ prion proteins in the brain actually aid learning and memory http://www.kurzweilai.net/how-normal-prion-proteins-in-the-brain-actually-aid-learning-and-memory Accelerating Intelligence Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:17:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: trakk http://www.kurzweilai.net/how-normal-prion-proteins-in-the-brain-actually-aid-learning-and-memory/comment-page-1#comment-44643 trakk Sat, 20 Oct 2012 16:56:17 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=167330#comment-44643 you mean we dont have the brain to understand the brain? you mean we dont have the brain to understand the brain?

]]> By: eldras http://www.kurzweilai.net/how-normal-prion-proteins-in-the-brain-actually-aid-learning-and-memory/comment-page-1#comment-43594 eldras Thu, 18 Oct 2012 12:31:32 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=167330#comment-43594 When Pusiner from California won the Nobel prize for discovering prions in 1997, no-one heard of them and they're not much understood still. "A prion is an infectious agent composed of protein in a misfolded form." wiki It makes sense to me that they can do good as well as bad for people, but what is also clear is that without drastically faster calculation and better scanning techniques, the lab work is too hard - too slow and too complex. The one week taken by Watson to memorize wikipedia will be down to 1 second by 2031, given a doubling in processing power per year, and that is pessimistic as it assumes no step change like quantum computers expected to be usefully functional about 2022 (ibm), and if 2013 Feb 13th decision to fund Project Blue Brain gets European Union approval for one billion euro, human brain simulation by the early 2020's. There are many other pathways to hyperprocessing: Superintelligence attempts are being debated in December at Oxford (AGI-12) and weak A.I.'s have 100's of thousands of people on them - Stanford just graduated 140,000 in its online A.I. course this year. After that invention and original research by machine systems has to happen (to argue against this you would have to persuade that the human brain is a religious entity). These possibilities are likely in the 2020's as expert systems increasingly combine. With those facilities When Pusiner from California won the Nobel prize for discovering prions in 1997, no-one heard of them and they’re not much understood still.
“A prion is an infectious agent composed of protein in a misfolded form.” wiki

It makes sense to me that they can do good as well as bad for people, but what is also clear is that without drastically faster calculation and better scanning techniques, the lab work is too hard – too slow and too complex.

The one week taken by Watson to memorize wikipedia will be down to 1 second by 2031, given a doubling in processing power per year, and that is pessimistic as it assumes no step change like quantum computers expected to be usefully functional about 2022 (ibm), and if 2013 Feb 13th decision to fund Project Blue Brain gets European Union approval for one billion euro, human brain simulation by the early 2020′s.

There are many other pathways to hyperprocessing: Superintelligence attempts are being debated in December at Oxford (AGI-12) and weak A.I.’s have 100′s of thousands of people on them – Stanford just graduated 140,000 in its online A.I. course this year.

After that invention and original research by machine systems has to happen (to argue against this you would have to persuade that the human brain is a religious entity).

These possibilities are likely in the 2020′s as expert systems increasingly combine.

With those facilities

]]> By: MrFriendly http://www.kurzweilai.net/how-normal-prion-proteins-in-the-brain-actually-aid-learning-and-memory/comment-page-1#comment-43397 MrFriendly Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:00:35 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=167330#comment-43397 I didn't think of that xD. Good movie, though. I didn’t think of that xD. Good movie, though.

]]> By: Eric http://www.kurzweilai.net/how-normal-prion-proteins-in-the-brain-actually-aid-learning-and-memory/comment-page-1#comment-43326 Eric Wed, 17 Oct 2012 17:43:48 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=167330#comment-43326 This reminds me of the movie Limitless. Now if only they can make a pill that could be manufactured through a 3D printer and given to everyone and not just the rich. This reminds me of the movie Limitless. Now if only they can make a pill that could be manufactured through a 3D printer and given to everyone and not just the rich.

]]> By: MrFriendly http://www.kurzweilai.net/how-normal-prion-proteins-in-the-brain-actually-aid-learning-and-memory/comment-page-1#comment-43262 MrFriendly Wed, 17 Oct 2012 12:32:41 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=167330#comment-43262 It's just unreal how complex the brain is. It almost seems like each discovery reveals more complexity, pushing back the finish line of complete understanding. It’s just unreal how complex the brain is. It almost seems like each discovery reveals more complexity, pushing back the finish line of complete understanding.

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