Artificial brain in the making

[patrickl]

Hadn't seen this earlier, but the Blue Brain is attempting to simulate a brain with a supercomputer.

An article in Der Spiegel explains in a more readable form

[Ed_McCarron]

Cool stuff.

How long until this gets drug into P&R?

[shorthair]

Mmm, considering Jeff Hawkins, I'm not sure this is the way to go.

[patrickl]

Mmm, considering Jeff Hawkins, I'm not sure this is the way to go.

They are not trying to create artificial intelligence. They are simulting a brain. The goal is mostly to see if the current theories about the brain are accurate.

[shorthair]

Though there are several points of interest, I think the creation, or enabling or whatever, of consciousness was implied if not said. But, yeah, I spose.

[shmokes]

I just wish Battle Bots would be outlawed.  After the inevitable robot uprising, they're going to be asking some pretty tough questions about that kind of exploitation.   

[patrickl]

I just wish Battle Bots would be outlawed.  After the inevitable robot uprising, they're going to be asking some pretty tough questions about that kind of exploitation.   

I wonder what's worse, the few fighting bots or the millions of robots that we enslaved to work in our factories for no wages.

[Ed_McCarron]

Har-de-har.

I for one welcome our new robot overlords.

[shorthair]

Old, old hat. Been proliferate in SF since the 40s or 50s.

[ChadTower]

San Francisco must be a scary place.

[shorthair]

Aohhhh.  Didn't at all get that till just now (and though I'm no homophobe, there was a definitive testosterone blanket I found a little uncomfortable when I visited there some years ago), and only happened to come here by way of needing to find the topic linked to present in a discussion elsewhere. <gives chad a noogie> You such funny guy.