My favorite heading in this Wired article on IBM new chip is:”But Can It Learn?”
All sorts of implications for chips like this, and it’s also made possible because we are in that sweet spot of innovation, where doubling of processing power according to “Moore’s Law” is a huge leap now, every 18 months or so.
As described in “The Second Machine Age”…there’s presently so much rice on those chessboard squares, that just moving from one square to the next means close to all the rice grains that have ever existed are “in play”.
The human brain is the world’s most sophisticated computer, capable of learning new things on the fly, using very little data. It can recognize objects, understand speech, respond to change. Since the early days of digital technology, scientists have worked to build computers that were more like the three-pound organ inside your head.