PlayStation 3 Does Miracles But Playing Games
Jayram Moorkanikara, Jeff Furlong and Matt Johnson, along with two students from Dartmouth College won top prize in IBM’s Cell Broadband Engine Professor University Challenge and $10,000 dollars.
The trio has hooked up three PlayStation 3s to reproduce human brain functions. Their solution was able to reproduce visual processing. The device assembled by the students was able to register an object with only a one-second delay compared to the human brain.
This experiment once again proves that the IBM CELL processor which powers the PlayStation 3 is very good at parallel programming. This means that one can create more powerful devices based on the processor than just a gaming console.
Jayram Moorkanikara mentions that other consoles aren't as applicable to this kind of research because "most of the gaming systems … are totally designed to be best in games only."
Well done for PlayStation 3 but wait a second. As far as I know PlayStation is a gaming machine in the first turn and I really don't care if it is as powerful in pattern recognition or other AI stuff as the human brain. We see almost no killer games for PlayStation 3 and it even can not be used to play PlayStation 2 titles.
Maybe time for Sony to re-position PlayStation 3 as a AI machine?
Labels: Cell Processor, IBM, PlayStation
