Real AI here we come
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080311/sc_livescience/tinybrainlikecomputercreated
Unlike normal transistors, with settings of 0 and 1, these new molecule-sized transistors have 16 setting, much like a brain nueron with branches.
"Since the central molecule can simultaneously control 16 other duroquinones, mathematically this means a single pulse at the machine can have 4^16 - or nearly 4.3 billion - different outcomes."
And you know what, most "hard SF" writers would've complained mightily if they'd seen this sort of technology in an SF book last year, and called it "SciFantasy".
Unlike normal transistors, with settings of 0 and 1, these new molecule-sized transistors have 16 setting, much like a brain nueron with branches.
"Since the central molecule can simultaneously control 16 other duroquinones, mathematically this means a single pulse at the machine can have 4^16 - or nearly 4.3 billion - different outcomes."
And you know what, most "hard SF" writers would've complained mightily if they'd seen this sort of technology in an SF book last year, and called it "SciFantasy".