Re:Robots Can’t Dance: Why the singularity is greatly exagge...
by chriswarbo on Monday January 26, 2015 @12:31PM
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You can simulate atoms and you can simulate the brain. The outcome of CERN's experiments has nothing to do with brain emulation (other than the fact it's pushing hardware innovation forward).
The reason CERN has built a 27km, 14TeV, super-cooled, superconducting magnetic particle collider is because we know so much about fundamental Physics that it takes something really crazy, like the LHC, running billions of collisions, in order to find something which we might find surprising. So far, it's not surprised us; although it has confirmed the ideas Peter Higgs developed 50 years ago.
Of course, there is still debate and surprise to be had in other, non-fundamental areas; yet these are studying the consequences of the fundamental laws (they're debating the output of a simulation, not its code).
The reason CERN has built a 27km, 14TeV, super-cooled, superconducting magnetic particle collider is because we know so much about fundamental Physics that it takes something really crazy, like the LHC, running billions of collisions, in order to find something which we might find surprising. So far, it's not surprised us; although it has confirmed the ideas Peter Higgs developed 50 years ago.
Of course, there is still debate and surprise to be had in other, non-fundamental areas; yet these are studying the consequences of the fundamental laws (they're debating the output of a simulation, not its code).