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Nanotechnology and Artificial Intelligence

Futurists and science fiction authors often use nanotechnology and artificial intelligence in their predictions of the future. While the realities of nanomaterials science and A.I. may not currently be able to provide the “nanobots” or autonomous robots projected by science fiction, at least some forms of A.I. has impacted various technologies from video games to control systems and due to the versatility of certain nanomaterials it is likely that future nanoelectronics circuit designs may be most beneficial to A.I. systems.

Some of the more interesting suggestions at implementing A.I. with nanomaterials include that of independent inventor Alex Nugent who has proposed to use of nanoparticles suspended in a solution as a neural synapse. A multitude of these neural synapses may be provided to function as a neural net. Another approach has been suggested by researcher Greg Snider of Hewlett Packard who teaches in this recent patent the formation of a neural net using the nanowire crossbar molecular memory design being developed by HP. If predictions by futurists about A.I. development prove true the work of inventors and scientists such as Nugent and Snider may be the seeds out of which truly intelligent machines are developed.