ray@BOEING.COM (Ray Allis) (07/18/88)
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 88 12:09 EDT From: Ray Allis <ray@BOEING.COM> To: ailist@ai.ai.mit.edu Subject: Smart money John Nagle says: > Forget Turing machines. The smart money is on reproducing the brain >with low-power analog CMOS VLSI. Carver Mead is down at Caltech, reverse >engineering the visual system of monkeys and building equivalent electronic >circuits. Progress seems to be rapid. Very possibly, traditional AI will >be bypassed by the VLSI people. Hear, hear! Smart money indeed! I don't know whether Carver prefers to work low-profile, but this has to be the most undervalued AI work of the century. This is the most likely area for the next breakthrough toward creating intelligent artifacts. And the key concept is that these devices are ANALOG. Ray Allis Boeing Computer Services-Aerospace Support CSNET: ray@boeing.com