NASA's "Intelligent Archive"
Here's NASA’s conceptual report on “Intelligent Archives” (IA aka AI), released August 27th 2002. Since the release, live neuron processors have officially come into existence, and NASA have assimilated Google. I’m sure they are doing rather well now, considering those two facts alone. Google can easily account for many of the blocks and lines in some of the figures below. Then the bio-processors can potentially fill in the blanks, while eliminating the software limitations that conventional AI poses.
In the PDF report, they mention “Moore’s Law”, as do most AI scientists who try to debunk hype about sci-fi movie doomsday scenarios. In reality, they are either already beyond simple AI, or will be once they perfect their bio-computational devices. Plus there’s everything that decades of AI research can, and will, provide.
"A glimpse of the possible effects of “revolutionary technology advances” can be observed in Figure 4-3 and the “blending” of several key technologies including Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information Technology, and Cognitive Science (NBIC). These co-evolving technologies are expected to have a profound impact on improving the performance and enabling new functionalities of future intelligent archive components and systems. It was speculated in a recent report on converging technologies by the NSF that:
“In the early decades of the twenty-first century, concentrated efforts can unify science based on unity in nature, thereby advancing the combination of nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and new humane technologies based in cognitive science. With proper attention to ethical issues and societal needs, converging technologies could determine a tremendous improvement in human abilities, societal outcomes, the nation’s productivity, and the quality of life. This is a broad, cross cutting, emerging, and timely opportunity of interest to individuals, society and humanity in the long term.” "