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Chemical computers make a step forward
BOFFINS HAVE BEEN having a few breakthroughs getting EU cash for projects that run computers, of a sort, in test tubes, according to the BBC.
The chemical "wet computer" is not a reference to one that has had coffee poured over it, but is a holy grail for researchers who want to take the chips out of the computational process.
A three-year project has just been given the nod by the EU funding committee. It aims to mimic some of the actions of neurons in the brain. It will make use of stable "cells" featuring a coating that forms spontaneously, like the walls of our own cells, and uses chemistry to accomplish signal processing similar to the ways neurons work.
Top boffin Klaus-Peter Zauner of the University of Southampton said the aim will not be to get it to run Counterstrike but to compute in new environments.
He said the research will open up application domains where current information technology does not offer any solutions, such as controlling molecular robots, fine-grained control of chemical assembly and intelligent drugs that process the chemical signals of the human body and act according to the local biochemical state of the cell.
Sounds all wet to us, but then again we're into hardware. µ
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If it doesn't do games then we don't need it. Games are the meds of the 21st century
Shurely it runs Crysis at 50fps, but you must walk by the water all the time, or you fps reachs zero. lol
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But can it play...Crysis?
"The chemical "wet computer" is not a reference to one that has had coffee poured over it" lol @ author...
So will the programs be called "wetware"... alright all jokes aside and although researches can point out some positive things that can be done, but quite the same can be said regarding some of the really nasty things man can think up, let alone the things nature might do...
Wet-Techno warfare anyone. Geez and we have only begun cyberwar...
It could help immundeficient people... when their defences need time to recover. Could program this little things to takeover whistle the immunesystem is on holiday...
Eeegads! But what if a virus figures out how to overide our little man made wet gadgets?! We'd be at the sh#t farm then...
Why stop at booze? Once the AI gets a sniff of beers and a spliff and starts to like it .. I'd watch my CC .. next thing you know there will be shady looking character delivering little bags to your door. And the booze crates ordered online will be addressed to HAL.
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Since it will mimic our brain's behaviour, what's gonna happen if you pour booze on it? Will it get plastered the way people do....?
Just you wait, first they control molecular robots then our brains. Judgement day is coming. Where's John Conor when you need him?