#thinking chip

[diaryofgrievances]

Intrusive

She wants to know how long it has been since I last was with a man. It is healthy, she says. Are you afraid it will be awkward afterwards? Are you afraid he is going to tell people? It’s not a big deal.

I am not afraid of these things. I’m not afraid others will know. I will know, and that will be enough. Why does she want to know these intimate details about me?

I really liked him, I say, but I was not in love with him. He is one of my fondest memories. ‘But did you guys kiss and other stuff?‘ Why must she know, why must she ask. I feel her pulling at my clothing, every time more aggressive. I do not wish to share myself with her. Not even my dearest, oldest friends would hack away at me, looking for such answers. I tell her nothing. I wish she’d stop. I wish she’d go away.

His eyes look at me from my memories. His eyes tell me he is child to the night. I did not know when I first looked at him... he is forbidden.

[beyondsingularity]

D-Wave Two: the quantum chip that thinks like a human

This chip sits at the heart of the D-Wave Two, a shed-sized computer housed in the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab at Nasa's Ames Research Center in California. Made from layers of niobium instead of silicon, the chip can have "a footprint in two different realities -- it has two allowed states", says D-Wave cofounder Geordie Rose. "Think of them as 0 and 1, but during its operation it can be tuned to be in a quantum mechanical 'superposition' of those states" -- meaning it can consider two things at once, allowing programs to mimic human learning.