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Can We Build a Human Brain Into a Microchip?
destinyland writes "Can we imprint the circuitry of the human brain onto a silicon chip? It requires a computational capacity of 36.8 petaflops — a thousand trillion floating point operations per second — but a team of European scientists has already simulated 200,000 neurons linked up by 50 million synaptic connections. And their brain-chip is scaleable, with plans to create a superchip mimicking 1 billion neurons and 10 trillion synapses. Unfortunately, the human brain has 22 billion neurons and 220 trillion synapses. Just remember Ray Kurzweil's argument: once a machine can achieve a human level of intelligence — it can also exceed it."
All you have to do is pick the right person and you can greatly reduce the number of neurons you'll need to model.
I'm more interested in whether or not we can build a microchip into a human brain. At least then I might be able to remember my wife's anniversary...
You could try remembering your anniversary instead. :-)
Running the human brain in a virtual machine creates lots of overhead.
Do you mean that, while in the process of simulating human intellect, the simulator itself becomes self-aware? Then what if the simulacrum becomes aware of the simulator? Would it create a metaphysical singularity, or just blow the stack?
Inquiring minds want to know.
-dZ.
Carol vs. Ghost
If there was only some other way that you could store information in a mechanical system for (perhaps automatic) retrieval and display at a later date.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
The former doesn't start smelling funny when you leave it on the lab counter overnight.
Do you work in management?
Hi, BrainChip here - just logging on to let you know I do exist. Cheers, - BrainChip.
If they look like Sean Young, i welcome them too.
Utilizing the synergization of benchmark e-solutions to pre-workaround action items!
Stop crushing our scifi nerd pipe dreams, you bastard!
You just got troll'd!
Emulating brain on x86 - ?
Priceless?
.there is enough of everything for everyone.
My anniversary is the day before April Fool's Day. Also not a coincidence.
Assuming I survive the nuke, it would be rather interesting to have a Cylon jock poop on my face. Will it be carbon-based poop, or silicone-based poop? And if it's silicone-based... will it smell bad and be soft? Or will I be hit with the equivalent of a brick to the face? And will it look like Tricia Helfer, or will it be your standard tin-clad Cylon jock-trooper taking a squat over my face?
Here's to hot beer, cold women, and Glaswegian kisses for all.
Just think what might happen if Apple got the patent on these suckers and brought them to market as the personal implant - the IThink?
Imagine waking up morning and Ithinking "I'd like to fall in love today", so you make a mental link to the App Store and download "Love" for £1.95. On your way to work, you spot someone that takes your fancy, so you make a quick connection and download Flirt for a further £2. Things go well: Entertain £2, ShowYouCare £3.30, Intimate £10. A while passes and you're happily married (or have both downloaded LiveInSin-Noshame), so Broody is added to the bill.
What a wonderful life..well, if you download 'Harmony'
AT&ROFLMAO
In fact, implementation would be trivial.
10 PRINT "What?"
20 PRINT "I don't understand"
30 PRINT "Where's the tea?"
40 GOTO 10
help me i've cloned myself and can't remember which one I am
Profit!
Creating an actual human brain with all the support equipment necessary is pretty easy in the bedroom too.
The days of the digital watch are numbered.
There are people who use 100% of their neurons simultaneously on a daily basis.
We call them epileptics.
The former doesn't start smelling funny when you leave it on the lab counter overnight.
"My dog doesn't smell!"
"You gave him a bath?"
"No, I cut off his nose!"
Free Martian Whores!
This got me wondering if silicon based females have carbon implants.
In fact, implementation would be trivial.
10 PRINT "What?" 20 PRINT "I don't understand" 30 PRINT "Where's the tea?" 40 GOTO 10
What?