Supercomputer Simulates Human Visual System

An anonymous reader writes "What cool things can be done with the 100,000+ cores of the first petaflop supercomputer, the Roadrunner, that were impossible to do before? Because our brain is massively parallel, with a relatively small amount of communication over long distances, and is made of unreliable, imprecise components, it's quite easy to simulate large chunks of it on supercomputers. The Roadrunner has been up only for about a week, and researchers from Los Alamos National Lab are already reporting inaugural simulations of the human visual system, aiming to produce a machine that can see and interpret as well as a human. After examining the results, the researchers 'believe they can study in real time the entire human visual cortex.' How long until we can simulate the entire brain?"

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If we follow moore's law..

[plasmacutter]

it will be 3-6 years.

Re:The Singluarity is Near

[4D6963]

Arguing that there may not be an algorithm for artificial intelligence is stupid.

You're the stupid one, learn to read, dumb ass. It's all about strong AI, not the weak AI we commonly refer to as AI. And no, your assumption that a strong AI algorithm can exist is baseless since if it could be proven it would be implementable. Because you can't argue that such a class of algorithms can exist if we don't even have a clue what a most basic strong AI algorithm could be like. And no, putting together a bunch of neural networks isn't a clue. I'm right until proven wrong even if it intuitively seems to you that I shall ultimately be proven wrong.