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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."
It would be a great tool for studying the brain.
Handy for deep space missions.
You can focus it on a single task that needs some level of 'intuition'. Like theoretical physics. The intuition would be used to think up new hypothesis.
Hell, you could have several million of them 'pondering' about any given problem at an accelerated pace.
What we must never forget is that they are to serve mankind, and allow us to enjoy life. Intellect couple with robotics will almost demand a society become socialist. I mean, if all menial labor is done by robots, how do we feed and care for the 10;s of million who will be unemployed?
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Human brains are not binary. Originally we thought they were - due to the limited nature of our sensors. But we have discovered they are not. Human brains are not digital, they are analog. We have a full spectrum from little to a lot.
Similarly, we do not have the simple commands of and/or/xor/not. Instead we have rather complex means of making decisions when faced with multiple inputs. We agonize over who to date, what to eat, what to do.
The mere fact that we have mapped out the human brain's conections does not in any way help us with the much more complex problem of how it makes the decisions at the connection points.
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