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'Positronic brain' and Data software should not be patentable | 277 comments | Create New Account
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'Positronic brain' and Data software should be patentable
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 10 2012 @ 11:39 AM EDT
No the outcome is contained in the whole, not to say in the hole.
We need no more stupid patents!
No more stupid ideas either,
Who can replace Man?

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'Positronic brain' and Data software should not be patentable
Authored by: celtic_hackr on Wednesday, October 10 2012 @ 12:28 PM EDT
There fixed that for you. There is nothing patent worthy of a Positonic Brain or
the software needed to do it. The knowledge of how to do it has been around for
50 years or better. What has been lacking is the hardware. The problem with
building a positronic brain is one of scale. One needs trillions and trillions
of bytes of data storage. The human brain has the equivalent of petabytes of
storage. Any of the top ten supercomputers today could be converted into a
"positronic" brain, but would never fit inside an andriod. I have a
design for an android of comparable abilities as "Data" the STNG
sentient being, but it's a matter of cost to build one. I simply can't afford to
build one of sufficient memory to be realistic.

Although, I'm not saying it'd be anywhere near as good as "Data". Not
to mention it would take years and years of training. In the decades range. Look
at IBMs AI. It's getting close.

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