Not a fan of Terminator the film franchise first started in 1984 by James Cameron? have you recently watched Her, Ex-Machina or any sci-fi film that depicts scientific artificial intelligence? Then this is the place to be.
You might think it is in appropriate to talk about films, especially sci-fi non fictional entertainment. When this is a dedicated coding site for geeks, or any information technology enthusiast. Read on to find out more on why it is relevant.
Going back in time to a decade of cyborgs (flesh eating machines that want to rule and reign over earth) that were once engineered to surpass mankind, civilization and any non-mechanical entity. Skynet the future proof manufacturer that installed millions of servers across the globe. Decided to over throw humanity once they came to realise that man would try to forcefully shut them down. Skynet has no central bases. Instead shift forms through any computerized system. It was to late for the creators to pull the plug on Skynet once they came to know that Skynet could think on its own initiative. Skynet operates on servers, drones, satellites, war machines, cyborgs or any comptuerized model.
Skynet will not rest until its mandate target is met (i.e. destroy/wipe-out all living organs).
Back to reality.
You may have heard of Ray Kurzweill age 66 for the right or wrong reasons the mad inventor that predicts machines surpassing humans by 2029,. Kurzweill, like it or not has been in headlines ever since his creative mind started developing products. Kurzweill known for his famous inventions: first flat bed scanner, text-to-speech synthesizer and many more mind boggling byproducts. Ray is also known for his predictions in the near future. A lot of them becoming a reality. Some not so good. He predicted the explosion of the world wide web at a time it was only being used by a few academics and he predicted dozens and dozens of other things that have largely come true, or that will soon, such as that by the year 2000, robotic leg prostheses would allow paraplegics to walk (the US military is currently trialling an "Iron Man" suit) and "cybernetic chauffeurs" would be able to drive cars (which Google has more or less cracked). Kurzweill's biggest dream ever since childhood has been self controllable mechanical robots overturn mankind in mind and in body. His prediction that artificial intelligence robotics will surpass humankind may not be so down putting after witnessing the last decade and a half of technology.
Kurzweill a fairly new employee at Google as directing engineer. Fits into the whole philosophy Google's standing structure stands for. Google has bought almost all machine learning and robotics company on earth. Recently purchased Boston Dynamics the firm that produces spectacular, terrifyingly life-like military robots. Google has also acquired the likes of British artificial intelligence startup DeepMind for £242m.
Google invests millions on server development. Google unlike other companies, designs and builds their very own computer systems. They do not simply purchase systems already configured for large scale manufacturing retail. Such as IBM, Sun, Dell or big retail suppliers Hewlett Packard.
Google have not only topped search engine providers but followed through with invention after invention. From Google maps to project loon (one pilot, 30 balloons deployed across rural New Zealand back in 2013) to Google titan drone, to set launch in months. From high altitudes atmospheres with satellite capabilities. Google plan on supplying ever living being with internet access 4 billion people without access. From smart vantage points (high altitudes). Unlike ground level construction. They have even been working on the likes of car automation.Have a quick watch of our future cars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqSDWoAhvLU
Amazon Prime Air vehicles have also started to test shipping through drone deliver methods that will allow delivery of products within an half an hour of placing order. The futures seems brighter in the cpu world.
Ben Jai one of Google's most frequently server dedicated architecture reveals some insight into how Google differ in server construction. Google distribute 12 volt battery supplies on each dedicated server for retail. In failure of power outage unlike most suppliers Google prepare for the worst scenario that can be thought of. Google has been using such techniques since 2005. Google have also sought out extreme energy efficient. Well formatted data-centers through the use of less energy consumption cooling systems, energy efficient power supply and the separation of cool and warm air.
Google-scale resources that are beyond anything the world has seen before. Such as the huge data sets that result from 1 billion people using Google ever single day. And the Google knowledge graph, which consists of 800m concepts and the billions of relationships between them. This is already a neural network, a massive, distributed global "brain". Can it learn? Can it think? It's what some of the smartest people on the planet are working on next.
Will machines take over like Skynet? And be a threat to our mankind? Is the idea of machine ruling our society far fetched or a feature that is waiting to be implemented in our society sometime soon? Please let me know how you feel. By leaving comments below.
