Wtf? Wasn't Nikola Tesla doing wireless power in 1891?

At least we're starting to catch up to the geniuses of over a century ago...

Scary enough, If you've read "The Age of Spiritual Machines" by Ray Kurzweil he predicted a lot of this stuff. It was written in 1999. The most interesting thing that he brought up was so called "utility fog", called "catoms" here. A mass of micro-robots that could changes shapes to become whatever you needed it to become. One downside, they could give new meaning to "computer virus", if there were turned loose inside a human body with instructions to destroy everything in its path.

Kurzweil also wrote "The Age of Intelligent Machines" back in 1989, and many of his 10 year predictions had come to fruition on time. His prediction is that following Moore's Law, computers will be smarter than humans by 2020, not 2058. And with the massive neural net beasts getting more and more sophisticated, and the focus on parallel processing starting to become more prevalent, 2020 seems more accurate.

arm the emp load the shot guns and head for the bunkers the war is on!!

I still don't think we understand enough about what intelligence is on a fundamental level to start getting overly caught up in when machines are more intelligent than us. If we don't really know what intelligence is, how will we know when they are more intelligent- a computer that is better at solving IQ tests than me may not have much empathic or emotional intelligence.

I can see that hardware is getting good, but I can't see any equivalent progression in AI, although I'm sure there may be subsequent posts that can point to it...

Also, why IDF? Surely this story should have been tagged as ROTM...

"a researcher demonstrating a laser based system where data was being modulated at 2.2Gbps. He said by tuning lasers at different wavelengths and integrating them together a 1Tbps link could be possible."

Doesn't this sound remarkably like Dense Wave Division Multiplexing?

I think that Tesla claimed long distance as this here is really a few feet only. Perhaps its not the same mechanism?

Paris, for catoms are welcomed!

anyone read Michael Crichton's novel "Prey"? Beware the evolving nanobots...

The Intel site says they are down to a very modest 2 inches in diameter - quite a bit less impressive than the astounding 2 mm quoted in the article ....