How Close Are We To Computers That Think Like Humans?
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========== Computers might not be able to mimic human
intelligence, but what about a memcomputer? Hey guys! Amy with you on DNews today talking
super intelligent computers! Well, maybe… In 1950, computer scientist Alan Turing proposed
the now-famous Turing Test that challenges anyone to build a computer that can think
like a human, success coming when a human conversing with that computer thinks he or
she is really talking to another person. So far, no computer has been able to pass
the Turing Test, but a new kind of computer might be getting closer. Universal memcomputing machines or Memcomputers,
developed by Massimiliano Di Ventra, a theoretical physicist at the University of California,
San Diego. They are a class of brain-inspired computers based on human memory systems, essentially
mimicking ...