"Diapers.com warehouses are a bit of a jumble. Boxes of pacifiers sit above crates of onesies, which rest next to cartons of baby food. In a seeming abdication of logic, similar items are placed across the room from one another. A person trying to figure out how the products were shelved could well conclude that no form of intelligence--except maybe a random number generator--had a hand in determining what went where."
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/12/ff_ai_essay_airevolution/
"Traditional computer processing is based on 1 and 0, yes and no, but Lyric Semiconductor wants us to consider the power of 'maybe'. The Cambrdige, Massachusetts startup recently came out of stealth to announce the development of their new computer chip that calculates using probabilities. "
http://singularityhub.com/2010/09/04/a-computer-chip-based-on-probability-not-binary-video/
Why is this a radical change from how computers are built? What do you think computing will become as a result? Wil this allow computer to think/process information more like humans? Will this hasten the coming of the singularity? What is singularity anyway?
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