Supercomputers and Superintelligence

A National Strategic Computing Initiative
WEBINAR Series Event 

SElectrical and Physical Characterization of Nano- and Non-Linear Devices for Future Computing

SPaFRutgers University's Office of Advanced Research Computing (OARC) and Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute (RDI2) are pleased to collaborate as one of the nation's few host sites for the limited-seat National Strategic Computing Initiative webinar series by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Please join us on Tuesday, May 9th from 1:00 - 3:00 pm as we present the NSCI WEBINAR Series Event "Supercomputers and Superintelliegence" with speaker Horst D. Simon of Lawrence Berkely National Lab (Please note, our events have moved to Room 601 in the CoRE Building and are limited-access simulcast.)

About the presentation:" “In recent years the idea of emerging superintelligence has been discussed widely by popular media, and many experts voiced grave warnings about its possible consequences. This talk will use an analysis of progress in supercomputer performance to examine the gap between current technology and reaching the capabilities of the human brain. In spite of good progress in high performance computing (HPC) and techniques such as machine learning, this gap is still very large. I will then explore two related topics through a discussion of recent examples: what can we learn from the brain and apply to HPC, e.g., through recent efforts in neuromorphic computing? And how much progress have we made in modeling brain function? The talk will be concluded with my perspective on the true dangers of superintelligence, and on our ability to ever build self-aware or sentient computers. " (Horst D. Simon)

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