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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.
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.
Emulating brain on x86 - ?
Priceless?
.there is enough of everything for everyone.
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!