Building a Silicon Brain

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."

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[intthis]

that's great, but will it run linux?

Re:obligatory

[generikz]

Next natural question would probably be "Will it blend?".

The good Doctor Asimov would probably be happy, his positronic brains are one step closer! :-)

Rgds,
Julien

Re:obligatory

[rizole]

Get it to imagine a beowulf cluster.

so...

[President_Camacho]

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.

So how long until we get AI that's addicted to World of Warcraft?

2^^20 neurons? That's wayyyy too many

[Eternal Vigilance]

...to accurately model most American thought processes.

Gotta go - American Idol's back on.


Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it...

Go to Hollywood

[syousef]

Lots of silion in Hollywood....oh you said BRAINS not BREASTS.

Re:Hello, world?

[Anonymous Coward]

A soul...

Ohh..

[snsr]

August 29, two thousand seven.

Re:Hello, world?

[Patrik_AKA_RedX]

Same thing that's already in a human brain at birth:
void SuckAtNipple();
void CryForAttention();
void Shit();

Re:One Million Neurons ;)

[skeftomai]

Would this thing do parallel processing?

Why?

[Quiet_Desperation]

Look at the rubbish the human brain generates. Ideology. Irrationality. Depression. Religion. Politics. Reality TV.

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:Hello, world?

[Alsee]

void SuckAtNipple();
void CryForAttention();
void Shit();

I think Shit() has a return type...

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Re:Depends on What Consciousness Is

[Joebert]

So, Science is the philosophy of the philosopher who was right ?

Here Here!

[LifesABeach]

Having hardware that duplicates human thought is an excellent corner stone to help me with my many woes. With Hard Drives approaching the Pico byte range, we will be able to backup our memories; And access vitally important past events. Obviously, there will be many more steps to take before I will be able to access things like my wifes birthday, our first date, and so on. Personally, I will be very grateful for less arguments about past events that I have for some reason or another, considered to trivial to remember.

"Come back Dear! I'm good with True-False!" - Larry, the Cable Guy