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Why's IBM Investing $3 Billion In Quantum Computing & Synth Brains? Trillion Dollar Humanoid Market
1. Silicon technology has taken humanity a long way forward from 1947 when the first transistor was invented by the Nobel prize winners Shockley, Bardeen & Brattain.
2. From smart mobile telephones we rely on to the sophisticated satellite navigation systems guiding our cars, a lot of techno-magic we see around us is a result of our ability to scale silicon-tech that turns hitherto science fiction into everyday reality at affordable prices.
3. All the Nobel laureates, scientists and engineers we liaise with at Quantum Innovation Labs collectively realise the end of the silicon-scaling era is coming to end as the Moore's Law era for Silicon-based computers finally concludes.
4. There will come a point in the medium-term future where microchips will no longer be made just out of silicon because other materials such as diamond, carbon nanotubes, graphene and neo-material hybrid chips will allow for faster and more complex computation.
5. Over the next five years, IBM is likely to invest a significant amount of their total revenue in technologies like non-silicon computer chips, quantum computing and computers that mimic the human brain, thereby staking Big Blue’s long-term survival on big data and cognitive computing.
6. IBM’s investment is one of the largest for quantum computing to date and the company is one of the biggest researchers in this nascent field.
7. The point of this latest visionary and bold three billion dollar announcement is to underscore IBM's commitment to the future of computing as much as it historically remains a pioneer in the computing field since its early days in the mid-1940s both during and immediately after the Second World War.
8. This $3 billion funding round will go towards a variety of projects designed to catapult semiconductor manufacturing past the "end of silicon scaling" in microchips, ie, the end of Moore's Law.
9. Most major semi-conductor and computing players see an end to silicon scaling within the next three to four tech generations.
10. Beyond that, Quantum Innovations Labs sees a new way to make money from diamond, carbon nanotubes, graphene and neo-material hybrid chips via long-term returns from holding valuable, potentially lucrative patents and intellectual property in cognitive and quantum computing.
11. The new R&D initiatives embraced by semi-conductor chip manufacturing computing players such as IBM fall into two categories:
a. Developing nanotech components for silicon chips for big data and cloud systems; and
b. Experimentation with "post-silicon" microchips to include:
- Research into quantum computers which converse in Q-bits as opposed to binary code;
- Neurosynaptic computers which mimic the behavior of living brains;
- Carbon nanotubes;
- Graphene tools; and
- Variety of other neo-material hybrid technologies.
12. Even after the end of silicon scaling, performance scaling in computer systems to access the trillion dollar new market in artificial intelligence, machine learning & human-like robots is likely to continue in various ways. To this end the R&D efforts of IBM, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, NASA, CIA and NSA amongst other government and private players in Europe, Russia, Asia -- including China, Japan and India -- Australia and South Africa are focused on different ways and means by which this might be done.
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Source: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/whys-ibm-investing-3-billion-quantum-computing-synth-brains-dk-matai
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The main goals of the 2045 Initiative: the creation and realization of a new strategy for the development of humanity which meets global civilization challenges; the creation of optimale conditions promoting the spiritual enlightenment of humanity; and the realization of a new futuristic reality based on 5 principles: high spirituality, high culture, high ethics, high science and high technologies.
The main science mega-project of the 2045 Initiative aims to create technologies enabling the transfer of a individual’s personality to a more advanced non-biological carrier, and extending life, including to the point of immortality. We devote particular attention to enabling the fullest possible dialogue between the world’s major spiritual traditions, science and society.
A large-scale transformation of humanity, comparable to some of the major spiritual and sci-tech revolutions in history, will require a new strategy. We believe this to be necessary to overcome existing crises, which threaten our planetary habitat and the continued existence of humanity as a species. With the 2045 Initiative, we hope to realize a new strategy for humanity's development, and in so doing, create a more productive, fulfilling, and satisfying future.
The "2045" team is working towards creating an international research center where leading scientists will be engaged in research and development in the fields of anthropomorphic robotics, living systems modeling and brain and consciousness modeling with the goal of transferring one’s individual consciousness to an artificial carrier and achieving cybernetic immortality.
An annual congress "The Global Future 2045" is organized by the Initiative to give platform for discussing mankind's evolutionary strategy based on technologies of cybernetic immortality as well as the possible impact of such technologies on global society, politics and economies of the future.
Future prospects of "2045" Initiative for society
2015-2020
The emergence and widespread use of affordable android "avatars" controlled by a "brain-computer" interface. Coupled with related technologies “avatars’ will give people a number of new features: ability to work in dangerous environments, perform rescue operations, travel in extreme situations etc.
Avatar components will be used in medicine for the rehabilitation of fully or partially disabled patients giving them prosthetic limbs or recover lost senses.
2020-2025
Creation of an autonomous life-support system for the human brain linked to a robot, ‘avatar’, will save people whose body is completely worn out or irreversibly damaged. Any patient with an intact brain will be able to return to a fully functioning bodily life. Such technologies will greatly enlarge the possibility of hybrid bio-electronic devices, thus creating a new IT revolution and will make all kinds of superimpositions of electronic and biological systems possible.
2030-2035
Creation of a computer model of the brain and human consciousness with the subsequent development of means to transfer individual consciousness onto an artificial carrier. This development will profoundly change the world, it will not only give everyone the possibility of cybernetic immortality but will also create a friendly artificial intelligence, expand human capabilities and provide opportunities for ordinary people to restore or modify their own brain multiple times. The final result at this stage can be a real revolution in the understanding of human nature that will completely change the human and technical prospects for humanity.
2045
This is the time when substance-independent minds will receive new bodies with capacities far exceeding those of ordinary humans. A new era for humanity will arrive! Changes will occur in all spheres of human activity – energy generation, transportation, politics, medicine, psychology, sciences, and so on.
Today it is hard to imagine a future when bodies consisting of nanorobots will become affordable and capable of taking any form. It is also hard to imagine body holograms featuring controlled matter. One thing is clear however: humanity, for the first time in its history, will make a fully managed evolutionary transition and eventually become a new species. Moreover, prerequisites for a large-scale expansion into outer space will be created as well.
Key elements of the project in the future
• International social movement
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• business incubator
• University of "Immortality"
• annual award for contribution to the realization of the project of "Immortality”.
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