IBM DEVELOPS ARTIFICIAL NEURONS

Yes, you read that headline title correctly. IBM is claiming to have developed an artificial neuron, that can "learn" on its own, and here's the clincher, it does so not by processing digital information, but rather, analogue information, and the result is, more processing power can be crammed into a tiny space than is possible with the digital equivalent. Here's the article that many of you sent this week:

IBM Creates Artificial Neurons That Learn By Themselves

The artificial neurons were made using special materials called phase-change materials, which form the basis of re-writable Blu-ray discs. However, the artificial neurons do not store digital information; they are analog, just like the synapses and neurons in our biological brain.

“We used the so-called phase-change nanoscale devices to emulate how the neurons in the brain operate,” co-author Abu Sebastian from IBM Research tells Newsweek. “The whole idea is that by realizing neurons and synapses using these nanoscale devices, we can actually bring down the size of the processor.

But there's a "tiny" catch here, beyond the obvious implications that such a technology has for the creation of artificial intelligence, and I hope you put all this into the context of that "neural smart dust" I blogged about earlier this week, and also into the context of my speculations over there years about "hidden systems of finance" and "high frequency trading algorithms," for imagine if such a technology were coupled to such programs. Indeed, the article itself suggests just this possibility:

The artificial neurons could also detect patterns in financial transactions to find discrepancies or use data from social media to discover new cultural trends in real time.

Imagine, similarly, the use of such technologies in politics, polling, and so on, as well as in financial trading. Its ability to predict and anticipate trends would be a financial godsend, particularly to financial actors whose very business is such prediction, from the commodities and currency speculators, to central banks.

Now let's indulge in our high octane speculation. Imagine such a technology coupled, say, to the latest upgrade in a software program like PROMIS, the infamous Inslaw software designed to track all sorts of data, regardless of what computer language it was coded in, in real time. The predictive capability could then be wedded to various "intervention" algorithms to buy or sell this or that commodity, stock, or currency, or to choke off a pending activity in any area, or, worse, to recommend military interventions, police actions, and so on. Consider only the spate of movies in recent years addressing precisely such subjects.  The trouble is, I suspect we're already looking at such technologies in action: stock and commodities markets seem to live in a surreal world of their own, disconnected from real human activity and production. Military interventions are launched that make no sense, even from military points of view, to the extent that one wonders if the insane people running the west as the same insane people programming the super-computers that "model" situations for them and propose "solutions."

So where's the high octane speculation here? Indeed, I've said all the above before. But now imagine that with an artificial neuron, one can construct an artificial neural network, literally spread across whole regions of the globe, if not the globe itself, clusters of such "neurons" in this or that locality all connected via the power grid and satellites to other such clusters, and one gets the idea. There are those out there on the internet who suggest that CERN's LHC is creating some sort of "portal" for higher dimensional "entities" to enter. I'm not in that crowd. Far from it. But if consciousness is some sort of "information in the field," then I strongly suspect that is one were to create such a portal, it would not be via particle colliders, but very large artificial neural nets. And IBM has now conveniently provided the first step, the first step, perhaps, toward invoking a light-bearing machine whose "tabrets and pipes" were "made perfect."

Thank goodness for electromagnetic pulse weapons, huh?

See you on the flip side...

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Joseph P. Farrell

Joseph P. Farrell has a doctorate in patristics from the University of Oxford, and pursues research in physics, alternative history and science, and "strange stuff". His book The Giza DeathStar, for which the Giza Community is named, was published in the spring of 2002, and was his first venture into "alternative history and science".

10 Comments

  1. goshawks on August 13, 2016 at 4:14 am

    “…or use data from social media to discover new cultural trends in real time.”

    This is a much more mundane use, but I would see it more as a ‘Brave New World’ or ‘1984’ enabler. I have suspected Fcebk, Twtr, etc., as having dark roots. However, the limitation to extracting their info for ‘action’ has probably been on the processing side. These artificial neurons may be designed to reduce that limitation…



  2. Pellevoisin on August 11, 2016 at 2:53 pm

    I wonder if this sort of artificial analogue neuron is what is necessary to create a device that could be inhabited by a currently discarnate entity …



    • goshawks on August 13, 2016 at 4:09 am

      Good (but chilling) thought!



  3. Guygrr on August 11, 2016 at 1:37 pm

    Hmm a fiber optic like neural network disseminated via smart dust. Morgellons anyone?



  4. WalkingDead on August 11, 2016 at 11:37 am

    How many civilizations, both here and throughout the universe, have been destroyed by their own hand? We have reached a point in our development where our technology has outpaced our maturity as a species. We are blindly advancing technologies which could very well cause us more problems than they supposedly “solve”. This could not be more apparent than with the GMO issue. Now we want to create, or already have within the black projects world, a machine intelligence with no emotions, morals, or soul which, should it ever obtain consciousness/self awareness, will rapidly become far more advanced in some respects than we are but not even close in others.

    Man creates “god”; “god” destroys man…



  5. Aridzonan_13 on August 11, 2016 at 11:10 am

    IMHO, the AI we have has off world origins. This is part of ET’s automated planet harvesting systems. This and the androids, greys and possibly other artificial life forms in their inventory. Why risk one of your own red shirts on the planet surface. Send Data..



  6. DanaThomas on August 11, 2016 at 11:08 am

    The mention of the “internet of things” and “cultural trends” are a dead giveaway. This is not about making life better for you and me. Though in theory this could be done such as in geophysical data, if this were not falsified with initiatives such as the “Foundation”-inspired Church of Climatology where the real game is in weather derivatives and no-longer-so-secret geoengineering scams.
    As many have pointed out, for decades now these Us-based oligarchs and their vassals are so obsessed with game scenario modelling; the technicians have been telling them “just one more project, just another trillion dollars and control will be complete”. But it may well turn out that these people are just grasping at straws…



  7. marcos toledo on August 11, 2016 at 10:32 am

    Anyone for Donavon’s Brain meets The Terminator. What are these know it all’s up to have they not mess up already. How about a trip to the local asylum for the criminally stupid.



  8. Robert Barricklow on August 11, 2016 at 10:26 am

    The Borg?
    The Hive?

    We’re like puppets so many hung on the wall,
    waiting for some one to come and move us or make us talk?

    Like diamonds
    we are cut by our own dust.



  9. Kahlypso on August 11, 2016 at 7:29 am

    Hello Dr Farrel, I havent read the full article yet, but I saw this on TV last night.. here is the related article. What do you think? http://news.mit.edu/2016/programming-language-living-cells-bacteria-0331 – Easy enough to pass digital to analogue signals and vice versa.. just need a Modem..

    Passing this in context with your blog.. last week I think.. about making cybotic jellyfish… Sounds to me like a lot inter disciplinary sciences being brought together.. And with the Neaderthals being brought back from the dead.. and with the scientists starting to bring back the dead.. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/05/03/dead-could-be-brought-back-to-life-in-groundbreaking-project/ Holy Pyramid Batman!!.. Undead (unkillable??) Neanderthal Cyborgs..in Space. Sounds crazy when you say it like that..:) And I’m sure that what they are counting on..



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