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Title: Artificial brain in the making
Post by: patrickl on April 29, 2007, 03:11:38 am

Hadn't seen this earlier, but the Blue Brain (http://bluebrain.epfl.ch/) is attempting to simulate a brain with a supercomputer.

An article in Der Spiegel (http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,466789,00.html) explains in a more readable form

Title: Re: Artificial brain in the making
Post by: Ed_McCarron on April 29, 2007, 03:28:07 pm

Cool stuff.

How long until this gets drug into P&R?

Title: Re: Artificial brain in the making
Post by: shorthair on April 30, 2007, 03:58:12 pm

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

Title: Re: Artificial brain in the making
Post by: patrickl on April 30, 2007, 04:55:45 pm

Quote from: shorthair on April 30, 2007, 03:58:12 pm

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.

Title: Re: Artificial brain in the making
Post by: shorthair on April 30, 2007, 11:47:17 pm

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.

Title: Re: Artificial brain in the making
Post by: shmokes on May 01, 2007, 02:03:29 am

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.   ;D

Title: Re: Artificial brain in the making
Post by: patrickl on May 01, 2007, 04:16:44 am

Quote from: shmokes on May 01, 2007, 02:03:29 am

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.   ;D

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.

Title: Re: Artificial brain in the making
Post by: Ed_McCarron on May 01, 2007, 08:52:50 am

Har-de-har.

I for one welcome our new robot overlords.

Title: Re: Artificial brain in the making
Post by: shorthair on May 01, 2007, 04:20:27 pm

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

Title: Re: Artificial brain in the making
Post by: ChadTower on May 01, 2007, 04:21:57 pm

San Francisco must be a scary place.

Title: Re: Artificial brain in the making
Post by: shorthair on May 11, 2007, 12:08:30 am

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.