Wake up - the Internet

Scientists around the world for decades are working on artificial intelligence: an artificial system that could not only analyze what is happening due to a pre-programmed algorithms, but also to educate themselves and make their own decisions. Some believe that this ability will allow your computer to recognize you.If artificial intelligence is limited, then theoretically it can develop, like a human.One of the areas of AI is the development of a full neural networks: electronic networks that mimic the human brain as a set of interconnected individual cells (neurons) communicate. Work in this area is being carried in 1943 - then the American scientists Warren McCulloch and Pitts Walt first described the concept.In a neural network, each element has a small piece of unique information, and it allows the allocation of memory to compare different pieces of the search for solutions, and write new ones. However, it may create artificial neural networks are not necessary: ​​it is believed that such a network is the Internet.Internet connects millions of computers in a network, between them there is a constant exchange of information. The system is constantly changing and being updated, and each new user can be added to it a new experience. American neuroscientist Christof Koch believes that the Internet has exceeded the capacity of the human brain, as the number of its "neurons" (as one cell appears not even a computer, and each transistor in the car), more than the number of nerve cells in the brain by several orders of magnitude (10 18 degrees to 10, 15). This he wrote in his book "Consciousness: a romantic confession reductionist."Koch believes that a system such as the Internet, may have its own consciousness. In an interview Slate.com, he said that although the architecture of the Internet is very different from the synaptic connections in the human brain, the complexity of the system allows for the theoretical possibility of the presence of the Internet has its own consciousness.The question appears in the electronic system of consciousness raised again and again, not only by scientists, but science fiction. I remember the "Skynet" from the "Terminator": a huge computer, which, having gained consciousness, he wanted to clear a person. Strugatsky brothers mentioned in his books about the computer with full self-consciousness, which is cut off after a few minutes of the start of work, because he began to "behave", granted autonomy. However, in contrast to the "Skynet" or "the Massachusetts project," Strugatsky Internet not originally conceived as a self-thinking system. Unruly, and, as a consequence, the possible hostility to the person is conscious car scares people the most.