Building a Brain on a Silicon Chip

Pedro · Mar 29, 2009

A chip developed by European scientists simulates the learning capabilities of the human brain.

An international team of scientists in Europe has created a silicon chip designed to function like a human brain. With 200,000 neurons linked up by 50 million synaptic connections, the chip is able to mimic the brain's ability to learn more closely than any other machine.
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http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22339/?a=f

Dark_Hanzo · Mar 29, 2009

Interesting project, thanks for sharing

Huupi · Mar 30, 2009

Its an interesting idea to simulate a very tiny part of a human brain.
It would be presumptious if they think it should be possible to create a fully functional human brain.
I propose that they start out with the brain of an ant,i guess it take a another millenium to get to that point if ever.

Pedro · Mar 30, 2009

Huupi, indeed, and they say as much

Despite efforts to make the chips as biologically plausible as possible, Markram admits they are still crude compared to what can be achieved in simulation. "It's not a brain. It's a more of a computer processor that has some of the accelerated parallel computing that the brain has," he says.

Because of this, Markram doubts that the hardware approach will offer much insight into how the brain works.
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Still a few years for Skynet.

demonon · Mar 30, 2009

Pedro said:

Still a few years for Skynet.
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Terminator Skynet?

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