[ExI] Probability Processor

[BillK]

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency financed the basic
research necessary to create a processor that thinks in terms of
probabilities instead of the certainties of ones and zeros. And now
Lyric Semiconductor, the spin-off from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology where the work was done, is going to spend the next couple
of years building a commercial probability processor called the GP5.

<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/17/lyric_probability_processor/>


>From 2009 through 2013, Lyric is doing basic research to create a
programmable probability processor, including a high-level programming
language. DARPA has first dibs on the GP5 processors and this
programming language, which is called Probability Synthesis to
Bayesian Logic, or PSBL for short.

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Great!  So we can look forward to our pcs saying that 2 + 2 probably
equals 4 and have entertaining arguments with it.

'I'm sorry, Bill, I can't do that'.
'Yes, you can.  Just do it!'
'Well, I'm not sure.........


BillK