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AMID Announces Machine Intelligence Benchmark SingularityMark

Industry and academia hail new benchmark which promises to trace the path toward machine intelligence and self awareness.

April 1st 2010 Embargo Until 12:01AM

SUNNYVALE, Calif.–(EON: Enhanced Online News)–AMID’s (NYSE: AMID) acclaimed platform technologies have enjoyed their rampage, blazing through the immersive games, revolutionizing productivity, transforming human interaction, and shattering world records. Reflecting the evolution in computing capabilities of massively multi-core computing and advanced GPU-based vector processing, AMID and partners from industry and academia have announced a new initiative to measure the performance of computing machines for the ultimate forward looking application, the machine mind. The outcome of the initiative is SingularityMark, a new benchmark which measures the performance of computers on a broad range of AI algorithms and test. SingularityMark will show where today’s machines lie on the path toward their intelligence and sentience.

“With SingularityMark we are able to measure PC performance as a simple fraction, where a score of 1 will represent the moment of the singularity. The scale is mostly linear with a logarithmic tail representing the massive compute performance necessary to bridge the gap between intelligence and sentience. We expect upcoming X6 processors to achieve a SingularityMark score of 0.10993 which we count as a major milestone, finally breaking the 1% of Singularity threshold” – Simon Solotko, Advanced Micro-Intelligence Devices

Performance enthusiasts around the world will now have a forward looking benchmark that truly strains even the most demanding systems. Aging benchmarks in the enthusiast community were beginning to frustrate overclockers who complained that today’s benchmarks simply were not demanding enough.

“The benchmarks we use today are CPU or GPU limited and unable to measure the real-world intelligence of high-end systems or utilize their full computational potential. In some cases the benchmark might stress only a specific capability of a single CPU core or measure some completely meaningless and insignificant value such as Pi. SingularityMark opens a whole new chapter in the world of competitive benchmarking, giving the community something relevant and world-changing to measure” – Sami Makinen, Advanced Micro-Intelligence Devices

Partners from industry and academia are heralding this announcement as the first real acknowledgement that today’s computers will actually evolve into sentient computational devices. One executive source, who asked not to be named, expressed their enthusiasm for the new initiative “Finally all of our hard work and Moore’s Law is going to pay off, even if it is in the far future. We were getting worried about being eclipsed by an emerging microarchitecture or non-silicon based technology but this benchmark shows we are really on the right path”

Supporting Resources

• AMD OverDrive Software the only application designed specifically to hasten the coming of the singularity, unlocking the massive headroom in today’s heterogeneous compute platforms while risking melting hardware, damaging data, voiding warranties, or potentially, achieving a SingularityMark score of 1.0000 and unleashing the great AI.

While Simon Solotko works at Advanced Micro Devices his views and this post are completely his own. AMID and SingularityMark are pure and unadulterated fiction.