Comments on: Why you should bet big on bionic brains http://www.kurzweilai.net/why-you-should-bet-big-on-bionic-brains Accelerating Intelligence Sun, 19 May 2013 20:22:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Cybernettr http://www.kurzweilai.net/why-you-should-bet-big-on-bionic-brains/comment-page-1#comment-58699 Cybernettr Fri, 30 Nov 2012 21:39:36 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=172141#comment-58699 Due to its profound implications, Watson's win on Jeopardy should have been top news in every media outlet in the country. But where did I first hear of it? An offhand reference to it in Business Week in and interview of (guess who?) Ray Kurzweil. It's like the internet. Most people heard nothing about it until 1994, the year it landed in our laps. Fortunately we needn't depend on the media anymore to inform us of these emerging technologies. Due to its profound implications, Watson’s win on Jeopardy should have been top news in every media outlet in the country. But where did I first hear of it? An offhand reference to it in Business Week in and interview of (guess who?) Ray Kurzweil.

It’s like the internet. Most people heard nothing about it until 1994, the year it landed in our laps. Fortunately we needn’t depend on the media anymore to inform us of these emerging technologies.

]]> By: Bob Vasquez http://www.kurzweilai.net/why-you-should-bet-big-on-bionic-brains/comment-page-1#comment-57052 Bob Vasquez Mon, 26 Nov 2012 23:50:35 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=172141#comment-57052 The "full article" delves into pattern recognition which may not always be reliable, if the wrong pattern is recognized. For example, in music (with which Ray is familiar) the pattern recognized are the two bar lines that enclose a measure with the first note being the downbeat. Musicians, too often, accent the downbeat when, in fact, the upbeat is where musical note grouping begins (anacrusis, q.v.). The human brain, for a very long time, has recognized the pattern of barlines instead of the patterns of note grouping. The “full article” delves into pattern recognition which may not always be reliable, if the wrong pattern is recognized. For example, in music (with which Ray is familiar) the pattern recognized are the two bar lines that enclose a measure with the first note being the downbeat. Musicians, too often, accent the downbeat when, in fact, the upbeat is where musical note grouping begins (anacrusis, q.v.). The human brain, for a very long time, has recognized the pattern of barlines instead of the patterns of note grouping.

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