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Hugo de Garis | |
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 De Garis in 2006 | |
| Born | 1947 (age 77–78) Sydney, Australia |
| Occupation | AI expert |
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Hugo de Garis (born 1947) is an Australian retired researcher in the sub-field of artificial intelligence (AI) known as evolvable hardware. In the 1990s and early 2000s, he performed research on the use of genetic algorithms to evolve artificial neural networks using three-dimensional cellular automata inside field programmable gate arrays.[1] He has written about his belief in an coming war between the supporters and opponents of intelligent machines, with the potential for the elimination of humanity by artificial superintelligences.[2]
- ^ de Garis, Hugo (1996). "CAM-Brain the evolutionary engineering of a billion neuron artificial brain by 2001 which grows/evolves at electronic speeds inside a cellular automata machine (CAM)". Towards Evolvable Hardware. Vol. 1062. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 76–98. doi:10.1007/3-540-61093-6_4. ISBN 978-3-540-61093-9.
one could use planetoid size asteroids to build huge 3D brain like computers containing ten to power 40 components with one bit per atom. Hence late into the 21st century, the author predicts that human beings will be confronted with the "artilect" (artificial intellect) with a brain vastly superior to the human brain with its pitiful trillion neurons.
- ^ Coale, Kristi (28 August 1997). "The Architect of Man's Demise". WIRED. Retrieved 1 March 2025.