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At this point, robots are not even as smart as cockroaches....the most powerful computer array on earth can simulate the activity of a mouse brain for a couple of seconds...computers becoming conscious may happen in a century...more likely two centuries or more away.....getting that kind of power into a package the size of a robot is even further out in the future. The problem is power consumption...your brain uses the equivalent of 20 or 30 watts of electricity.....the computer that simulates a mouse brain for a few seconds uses hundreds of thousands watts of electricity and requires tens of thousands of pounds of air conditioning....unless a radical change happens in the computer industry, a machine that could just simulate the human brain, not even thinking about a machine that achieves consciousness would require the output of a mid sized nuclear reactor for power and almost as much power again for cooling.

<blockquote data-quote="palerider" data-source="post: 236665" data-attributes="member: 176"><p>At this point, robots are not even as smart as cockroaches....the most powerful computer array on earth can simulate the activity of a mouse brain for a couple of seconds...computers becoming conscious may happen in a century...more likely two centuries or more away.....getting that kind of power into a package the size of a robot is even further out in the future.&nbsp; The problem is power consumption...your brain uses the equivalent of 20 or 30 watts of electricity.....the computer that simulates a mouse brain for a few seconds uses hundreds of thousands watts of electricity and requires tens of thousands of pounds of air conditioning....unless a radical change happens in the computer industry, a machine that could just simulate the human brain, not even thinking about a machine that achieves consciousness would require the output of a mid sized nuclear reactor for power and almost as much power again for cooling.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="palerider, post: 236665, member: 176"] At this point, robots are not even as smart as cockroaches....the most powerful computer array on earth can simulate the activity of a mouse brain for a couple of seconds...computers becoming conscious may happen in a century...more likely two centuries or more away.....getting that kind of power into a package the size of a robot is even further out in the future. The problem is power consumption...your brain uses the equivalent of 20 or 30 watts of electricity.....the computer that simulates a mouse brain for a few seconds uses hundreds of thousands watts of electricity and requires tens of thousands of pounds of air conditioning....unless a radical change happens in the computer industry, a machine that could just simulate the human brain, not even thinking about a machine that achieves consciousness would require the output of a mid sized nuclear reactor for power and almost as much power again for cooling. [/QUOTE]

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