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Artificial Brain '10 Years Away'
SpuriousLogic writes "A detailed, functional artificial human brain can be built within the next 10 years, a leading scientist has claimed.
Henry Markram, director of the Blue Brain Project, has already built elements of a rat brain.
He told the TED global conference in Oxford that a synthetic human brain would be of particular use finding treatments for mental illnesses.
Around two billion people are thought to suffer some kind of brain impairment, he said.
'It is not impossible to build a human brain and we can do it in 10 years,' he said."
So now we can feed them to the future invasion of zombies? That way we can all co-exists.
No one would use eleven years in a cliche.
Spinal Tap would.
"Around two billion people are thought to suffer some kind of brain impairment, he said."
Only two billion? Sounds kind of low. My estimate is more in the neighborhood of 6-7 billion.
your roommate is a complete bastard
Sinners go to /dev/null.
So he's gonna build a functional model of a brain, program in society driven angst and a genetic propensity for outlier behaviour and then treat the artifical responses as source for diagnosis and treatment - well "hello Dr. Frankenstein!".
Actually, us scientists have already built the artificial brain, and connected it to a historical copy of the web circa 2009. The brain has been designed in such a way that it has memories of past events, borrowed from other peoples lives and stitched together in an amusing way known as a "nerd". Because the brain is so obsessed with finding pictures of the opposite sex, and playing games, it doesn't even notice that all its limbs and senses are actually being generated by the array of computers operated by Google in 2009 (they were donated 8yrs after the cloud became self-aware). Coincidentally, that's why you feel a connection with them, and have projected one of your own behavioral laws upon them in your reality (it wasn't actually their motto in the real world).
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Scientist: we can model the human brain in 10 years
Newage Skeptic: how can you model the brain you don't know how it works?
Scientist: we don't need to know how it works
Newage Skeptic: even if you do what you say how do you know it will work?
Scientist: our theories suggest that it will work
Newage Skeptic: but sometimes my car keys, I lose them and..
Scientist: what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
Newage Skeptic: okay a simple wrong would've done just fine