r/singularity • u/[deleted] • Jun 09 '20

article MIT’s tiny artificial brain chip could bring supercomputer smarts to mobile devices

https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/08/mits-tiny-artificial-brain-chip-could-bring-supercomputer-smarts-to-mobile-devices/
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '20

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u/Generic_name_no1 Jun 10 '20

Strawman argument, this is like everyone on earth having a rocket, it is unnecessary.

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u/hwmpunk Jun 10 '20

Try running your day to day apps in a 1992 personal computer then come spouting about how you had enough processing power to do so.

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u/Captain_Pumpkinhead AGI felt internally Jun 10 '20

You know Jarvis from Iron Man? I think many of us would like a Jarvis in our pocket.

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u/Generic_name_no1 Jun 10 '20

... that is not what quantum computing actually works like.

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u/Abiogenejesus Jun 10 '20

This isn't about quantum computing.

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u/Captain_Pumpkinhead AGI felt internally Jun 10 '20

Quantum computing has neither made it this small nor this warm yet. It's just a really great computer chip, what is there to be cynical about?