[ExI] Suzanne Gildert on Thinking about the hardware of thinking: Can disruptive technologies help us achieve uploading?, Teleplace, 28th November 2010, 10am PST

[Natasha Vita-More]

Great talk and thank you Giulio.  I'm glad that my questions were addressed
by Suzanne since no one on the Extropy or Humanity+ list seemed to care.
Suzanne did a great job and she is a lot of fun!


Natasha Vita-More

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VIDEO - Suzanne Gildert on Thinking about the hardware of thinking in
Teleplace

http://telexlr8.wordpress.com/2010/11/29/suzanne-gildert-on-thinking-about-t
he-hardware-of-thinking-can-disruptive-technologies-help-us-achieve-uploadin
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On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Giulio Prisco <giulio at gmail.com> wrote:
> REMINDER Suzanne Gildert on Thinking about the hardware of thinking 
> tomorrow in teleplace
>
> http://telexlr8.wordpress.com/2010/11/22/suzanne-gildert-on-thinking-a
> bout-the-hardware-of-thinking-can-disruptive-technologies-help-us-achi
> eve-uploading-teleplace-28th-november-2010-10am-pst/
>
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Giulio Prisco <giulio at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Suzanne Gildert will give a talk in Teleplace on "Thinking about the 
>> hardware of thinking: Can disruptive technologies help us achieve 
>> uploading?" on November 28, 2010, at 10am PST (1pm EST, 6pm UK, 7pm 
>> continental EU).
>>
>> http://telexlr8.wordpress.com/2010/11/22/suzanne-gildert-on-thinking-
>> about-the-hardware-of-thinking-can-disruptive-technologies-help-us-ac
>> hieve-uploading-teleplace-28th-november-2010-10am-pst/
>>
>> This is a revised version of Suzanne's talk at TransVision 2010, also 
>> inspired by her article on "Building more intelligent machines: Can 
>> 'co-design' help?" (PDF). See also Suzanne's previous Teleplace talk 
>> on "Quantum Computing: Separating Hope from Hype".
>>
>> Thinking about the hardware of thinking: Can disruptive technologies 
>> help us achieve uploading?
>>
>> S. Gildert, Teleplace, 28th November 2010
>>
>> We are surrounded by devices that rely on general purpose silicon 
>> processors, which are mostly very similar in terms of their design.
>> But is this the only possibility? As we begin to run larger and more 
>> brain-like emulations, will our current methods of simulating neural 
>> networks be enough, even in principle? Why does the brain, with 100 
>> billion neurons, consume less than 30W of power, whilst our attempts 
>> to simulate tens of thousands of neurons (for example in the blue 
>> brain project) consumes tens of KW? As we wish to run computations 
>> faster and more efficiently, we might we need to consider if the 
>> design of the hardware that we all take for granted is optimal. In 
>> this presentation I will discuss the recent return to a focus upon 
>> co-design - that is, designing specialized software algorithms 
>> running on specialized hardware, and how this approach may help us 
>> create much more powerful applications in the future. As an example, 
>> I will discuss some possible ways of running AI algorithms on novel 
>> forms of computer hardware, such as superconducting quantum computing 
>> processors. These behave entirely differently to our current silicon 
>> chips, and help to emphasize just how important disruptive 
>> technologies may be to our attempts to build intelligent machines.
>>
>> Event on Facebook
>>
>> Dr. Suzanne Gildert is currently working as an Experimental Physicist 
>> at D-Wave Systems, Inc. She is involved in the design and testing of 
>> large scale superconducting processors for Quantum Computing 
>> Applications. Suzanne obtained her PhD and MSci degree from The 
>> University of Birmingham UK, focusing on the areas of experimental 
>> quantum device physics and superconductivity.
>>
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>

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