Scientists Create a ''Schizophrenic'' Computer

[Marcus Yam]

Fake brains used to study real brains.

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[buzznut]

Oh great, just watched Virtuosity last night. Sounds like an incredibly bad idea..

 

[eagles453809]

um...this is old news...read this like two weeks ago. step it up toms im tired of reading fox news style bs and articles copied/paste from other tech news sites.

 

[wishmaster12]

Maybe this computer should take its pills

 

[TheWhiteRose000]

Portal 2 moment.
"The Greatest Scientists in the world came together to create the worlds dumbest computer."

 

[the_krasno]

[citation][nom]TheWhiteRose000[/nom]Portal 2 moment."The Greatest Scientists in the world came together to create the worlds dumbest computer."[/citation]

Or in this case, craziest computer.

 

[DXRick]

This is your computer on drugs?

 

[nexus9113]

So Skynet is going to command all machines to enslave and destroy humanity... because the leprechaun in the deep end of the sandbox told it to...

 

[PudgyChicken]

Two week old news. Seriously, what the hell.

 

[liveonc]

They can't even make Skynet & why didn't "Watson" make Google go bankrupt? But now they want to make crazy Skynet, instead of just giving the Governator some of that Seroquel that caused Britney to shave her head...

 

[digitalrazoe]

What's next? Bipolar chips ?

 

[wishmaster12]

Maybe we should build this computer a hospital

 

[serkol]

''Schizophrenic'' Computer = Windows with always-on antivirus. I realized this after switching to a Mac

 

[FloKid]

I have schizophrenia, maybe I should patent my brain lol.

 

[sseyler]

[citation][nom]otacon72[/nom]Yet you took the time to post a useless comment about it. Some of us don't have time to browse through 100's of websites every day.[/citation]

I don't browse through "100's of websites every day", yet I came across this article weeks ago (from somewhere). It's pretty funny how often Tom's Hardware is behind the times.

 

[reggieray]

I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.

 

[house70]

[citation][nom]serkol[/nom]''Schizophrenic'' Computer = Windows with always-on antivirus. I realized this after switching to a Mac [/citation]
Well, now you have an impotent computer. Well done!

 

[house70]

[citation][nom]TheWhiteRose000[/nom]Portal 2 moment."The Greatest Scientists in the world came together to create the worlds dumbest computer."[/citation]
Sorry, but schizophrenia is not mental retardation, nor stupidity. Bad analogy.

 

[bit_user]

Repost. The headline is still misleading.

What they actually did was build a computer model that's loosely inspired by a human brain, then were able to observe similar symptoms after changing factors thought to cause the disorder in actual brains.

This is an interesting story, but it's mostly a story about computer modeling and not really about AI.

Sorry guys, but your comments about Skynet and HAL are way off base.

 

[FloKid]

No no you guys got it all wrong. NOW you have a computer which you can actually learn from.

 

[enforcer22]

[citation][nom]sseyler[/nom]I don't browse through "100's of websites every day", yet I came across this article weeks ago (from somewhere). It's pretty funny how often Tom's Hardware is behind the times.[/citation]

Its pretty funny how idiots like you post usless crap like this on a post to get attention. Also how for some reason you missed this being posted on toms a week ago. This is the second time i seen this posted here. Why not say something else moronic like does it play crysis ffs.

 

[liveonc]

[citation][nom]bit_user[/nom]Repost. The headline is still misleading.What they actually did was build a computer model that's loosely inspired by a human brain, then were able to observe similar symptoms after changing factors thought to cause the disorder in actual brains.This is an interesting story, but it's mostly a story about computer modeling and not really about AI.Sorry guys, but your comments about Skynet and HAL are way off base.[/citation]

Have you tried gpugrid or freehal@home? It was the mention of "Watson" that got me so hyped about "bi-polar AI". What's all this fad with getting a human to understand humans better via a machine anyways? I give my PC Alzheimer every time I need to reinstall the thing ;-)

 

[carcharocles_theory]

People should refrain from talking about bipolar disorder or schizophrenia until they actually know what the disorders are all about. Note that the vast majority of people don't have a clue about either illness. This includes most of the commenters on this article. Also, jokes about the mentally ill fall, in most jurisdictions, under the same category as sexist or racist jokes.

On the article, this is pretty interesting. The more insight into these poorly understood disorders, the better. Especially since so many current anti-psychotics' side effects are so crippling on their own.

 

[Benihana]

They should just stop wasting time, and pacify Chuck Norris, so that he'll stop creating diseases and disorders for mankind.

 

[alikum]

[citation][nom]house70[/nom]Well, now you have an impotent computer. Well done![/citation]
Seriously need to LOL at this!