Building a Silicon Brain 236
prostoalex tips us to an article in MIT's Technology Review on a Stanford scientist's plan to replicate the processes inside the human brain with silicon. Quoting: "Kwabena Boahen, a neuroengineer at Stanford University, is planning the most ambitious neuromorphic project to date: creating a silicon model of the cortex. The first-generation design will be composed of a circuit board with 16 chips, each containing a 256-by-256 array of silicon neurons. Groups of neurons can be set to have different electrical properties, mimicking different types of cells in the cortex. Engineers can also program specific connections between the cells to model the architecture in different parts of the cortex."
obligatory (Score:5, Funny)
so... (Score:4, Funny)
So how long until we get AI that's addicted to World of Warcraft?
2^^20 neurons? That's wayyyy too many (Score:3, Funny)
Gotta go - American Idol's back on.
Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it...
Go to Hollywood (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Hello, world? (Score:5, Funny)
Ohh.. (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Hello, world? (Score:3, Funny)
void SuckAtNipple();
void CryForAttention();
void Shit();
Re:One Million Neurons ;) (Score:2, Funny)
Why? (Score:3, Funny)
You really want processors that need weekly visits from an Eliza program and iZoloft patches?
"Sorry, Bob. I can't run those projections now. The supercomputing cluster is in a funk over the American Idol results."
Y'all think AI is going to be so great and a bag of chips, too.
Re:obligatory (Score:2, Funny)
The good Doctor Asimov would probably be happy, his positronic brains are one step closer!
Rgds,
Julien
Re:obligatory (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Hello, world? (Score:5, Funny)
void CryForAttention();
void Shit();
I think Shit() has a return type...
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Re:Depends on What Consciousness Is (Score:2, Funny)
Here Here! (Score:3, Funny)
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