IBM building Blue Brain (full brain neuron simulator)
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IBM building Blue Brain (full brain neuron simulator)
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Re: IBM building Blue Brain (full brain neuron simulator)
#2This is amazing - a complete simulation of a section of cortical column. And by complete, it's 400 subsimulations per neuron. Outstanding! Thanks IBM!
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#3I watch with great interest. Is this how general AI will happen? or is it more like heavier then air flight was: we will get there, we just need to understand the fundamentals of what makes AI better.
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#4This is amazing - a complete simulation of a section of cortical column. And by complete, it's 400 subsimulations per neuron . Outstanding! Thanks IBM!
This is one of the advantages of big companies: they can afford to do expensive stuff even though there is no immediate guaranteed return.
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#5I watch with great interest. Is this how general AI will happen? or is it more like heavier then air flight was: we will get there, we just need to understand the fundamentals of what makes AI better.
I doubt it. Our modeling capabilities continue to develop much faster than our knowledge of how the brain works.
Of course, neural network modeling can still be of great use. Since we've more or less figured out how the brain does a variety of low-level processing tasks (like coordinating muscle movements, finding the visual depth and texture of observed surfaces, etc.), this knowledge can serve as a starting point for developing exciting technologies at increasingly faster speeds (robotics limbs, computer-guided navigation, etc.). Also, advanced neural networks can serve as rudimentary "existence proofs" for theories of mind and consciousness. For example, a theory that claims that our incredible computing power stems from a recurrent network of thalamo-cortical neurons is strengthened by a computer simulation that exhibits similar large-scale behavior in similar time scales under suitable parameters.
That last sentence is pretty qualified, for good reason. We shouldn't expect to write some code and discover a working brain, at least not until we figure out how it works to begin with.
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#6The day one of these simulators does something unique and interesting that can't be done with other hardware -- I think we will have turned a very important corner.
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#7Things like that make me think it's time to make Asimov's Three Laws* a legal requirement.
Re: IBM building Blue Brain (full brain neuron simulator)
#8This is amazing - a complete simulation of a section of cortical column. And by complete, it's 400 subsimulations per neuron . Outstanding! Thanks IBM!
This is one of the advantages of big companies: they can afford to do expensive stuff even though there is no immediate guaranteed return.
Don't thank IBM, thank their clients that pay too much for consulting.
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#9'Markram believes that he'll be able to model a complete human brain on a single machine in ten years or less.'
Does this mean coding is in its last days? In future, will we just chat to machines instead of programming them?
Re: IBM building Blue Brain (full brain neuron simulator)
#10I watch with great interest. Is this how general AI will happen? or is it more like heavier then air flight was: we will get there, we just need to understand the fundamentals of what makes AI better.
I doubt it. Our modeling capabilities continue to develop much faster than our knowledge of how the brain works. Of course, neural network modeling can still be of great use. Since we've more or less figured out how the brain does a variety of low-level processing tasks (like coordinating muscle movements, finding the visual depth and texture of observed surfaces, etc.), this knowledge can serve as a starting point f…
I think it's entirely possible we'll develop general AI without understanding consciousness or even some of the other functions of the brain.