Latonio, JP

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A fifth generation computer is said to be cable to draw inference and reasonable
conclusions from a knowledge base. It also interacts with its users via a new, unique user
interface to perform functions such as speech recognition, machine translation of languages, and
robotic operations. These computers using artificial intelligence have been under development
since the early 1980s, especially in Japan, as well as in the United States and Europe. In 1991,
however, Japan began a new 10-year initiative to investigate neural networks, which will
probably divert resources from development of the fifth generation as traditionally defined.
CHARACTERISTICS
1) The fifth generation computers will use super large scale integrated chips.
2) They will have artificial intelligence.
3) They will be able to recognize image and graphs.
4) Fifth generation computer aims to be able to solve highly complex problem including decision
making, logical reasoning.
5) They will be able to use more than one CPU for faster processing speed.
6) Fifth generation computers are intended to work with natural language.
Source: http://latesttechnomanias.blogspot.com/2010/06/fifth-generation-computers.html

Fifth generation computers are in developmental stage which is based on the artificial
intelligence. The goal of the fifth generation is to develop the device which could respond to
natural language input and are capable of learning and self-organization. Quantum computation,
molecular and nanotechnology will be used in this technology. It can be inferred that a 5th
generation computer possesses human-like intelligence.
The term "fifth generation" was intended to convey the system as being a leap beyond
existing machines. In the history of computing hardware, computers using vacuum tubes were
called the first generation; transistors and diodes, the second; integrated circuits, the third; and
those using microprocessors, the fourth. Whereas previous computer generations had focused on
increasing the number of logic elements in a single CPU, the fifth generation, it was widely
believed at the time, would instead turn to massive numbers of CPUs for added performance.