> These papers are as relevant to engineering/product stage as every other "new battery" or "new cancer" treatment are at the moment.
The growth of battery and a few other technologies have been frustrating in the past decade. But I wouldn't put cancer research alongside those. It's not every day that we encounter improvements in cancer treatments. The important fact to note is that cancer survival rates have improved significantly in the past few decades. Though, I'm worried that the current political climate will scuttle that progress.
AndrewDucker 21 hours ago [-]
Battery advances in the last couple of decades have also been incredibly impressive.
random3 3 hours ago [-]
Yes, cancer, bateries and computing has seen impressive progress.
Yet, in general the correlation between results "on paper" and results in practice is over a long period of time, if any.
It doesn't mean that new results aren't good, just that they may not translate into something practical very soon.
wg0 1 days ago [-]
Law of headlines - "could happen" would never happen.
functionmouse 1 days ago [-]
it's not artificial if it's real brain
goku12 1 days ago [-]
That would be like Full Self Driving Supervised. However, they're not taking about an organic brain here. They're talking about memristors that mimic our brain.
But memristors is a technology that has been giving us frustrating false hopes for nearly two decades now. I think I'll just wait this one out till they have a product to show.
E.g.
4 days ago (same paper) https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1s2bjqp/a_new_hafn...
3 years ago https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/14d1dt5/why_ar...
5 years ago https://www.quora.com/Would-it-be-worthy-to-use-memristors-t...
The growth of battery and a few other technologies have been frustrating in the past decade. But I wouldn't put cancer research alongside those. It's not every day that we encounter improvements in cancer treatments. The important fact to note is that cancer survival rates have improved significantly in the past few decades. Though, I'm worried that the current political climate will scuttle that progress.
Yet, in general the correlation between results "on paper" and results in practice is over a long period of time, if any.
It doesn't mean that new results aren't good, just that they may not translate into something practical very soon.
But memristors is a technology that has been giving us frustrating false hopes for nearly two decades now. I think I'll just wait this one out till they have a product to show.