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The End of Encryption, Quantum Brains, Photonics & Superintelligence - Prof. Dr. Klaus Mainzer
In an interview with Leonard Schmedding, Professor Dr. Klaus Mainzer, president of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, discusses the future of AI and computing. He argues that quantum computing will be of central importance and will surpass classical machine learning, which he describes as merely 'highly tuned statistics on fast computers' as seen in ChatGPT, and that digital computing has fundamental limits. He discusses neuromorphic computing and computers that compute with light. On the origins of AI, he explains that neural networks were inspired by the giant squid's neuron, studied by Nobel laureates Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley of Cambridge, and notes that intelligence does not require a mammalian-type brain: crows and ravens have densely packed, highly interconnected neurons with intelligence comparable to dogs, while octopuses have nine brains (eight peripheral and one central). He concludes that from a scientific standpoint the human brain is not necessarily special.
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