We certainly could build a supercomputer with its own dedicated nuclear power plant. My guess is that we won’t. So as long as we use CMOS transistors for computation there is a maximum supercomputer we will build. And that will happen in roughly 10 years.
Perhaps the Singularity Isn’t Near
November 7th, 2011 · No Comments
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What is the Singularity?
September 30th, 2011 · 3 Comments
Many people scoff and have problems even understanding the Singularity. With credit to Charlie Stross the singularity is defined as a specific 13 year period from 2047 through 2060. Here is a chart of the computational speed of the fastest computer in the world, as measured in floating point operations per second. You can see [...]
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A new AI
May 15th, 2009 · No Comments
A new AI was born today, it’s now online, The Wolfram Alpha. I’d like to offer an especially warm greeting to our future overlord. To quote Stephen Wolfram: “Wolfram|Alpha defines a new direction in computing—that would have simply not have been possible without Mathematica, and that in time will add some remarkable new dimensions to [...]
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