Guest A/D Posted November 19, 2009 Share Posted November 19, 2009 http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/28842.wss#release IBM announced this week that it has a computer system that can simulate the thinking power of a cat's brain with 1 billion neurons and 10 trillion synapses. At just 4.5 percent of a human brain, the computer can sense, perceive, act, interact and process ideas without consuming a lot energy. apologies if jazz! pretty vague, but fascinating read! . . and it's funded by DARPA! yayyyyy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blir Posted November 19, 2009 Share Posted November 19, 2009 That's not difficult. I could program that with Flash Actionscript on a ten year old Celeron PC. Mainly it sleeps and sometimes wakes up for food. And farts here and there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Coalbucket PI Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 Sounds amazing. I don't think the understanding of the brain is really complete enough for them to really rebuild it piece by piece... it doesn't explain where the biological information is coming from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 Some more information here: http://modha.org/ I'm probably stating the obvious here but it's not exactly a simulation of a cat's brain. It's an attempt to create brain-like behaviour on a huge schale. Their combination of hardware an software research has made it possible to have the same amount of neurons and synapses as a cat's brain. But the models they use are still at an early stage because neuroscience has a lot more ground to cover. But this will certainly help neuroscience a lot. They also say: "If the current trends in supercomputing continue, it seems that human-scale simulations will be possible in the not too distant future." Scary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GORDO Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 you should watch this one.´ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoodie Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 omfg i love neuroscience so much Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GORDO Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 what happens when they plug this thing to the internet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneToThirtySix Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 Birth of the Self-Awareternet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Babar Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 what happens when they plug this thing to the internet? like everyone else, it browses some porn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoodie Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 what happens when they plug this thing to the internet? like everyone else, it browses some porn. it googles shit like "cat nip" and "shiny moving things" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Blanket Fort Collapse Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 I don't get it... a duder with tie die hair survived after the right half his skull was shot off? I refuse to believe a cats brain can be simulated, a dolphin... hell a human maybe, but cats are just too amazingly bewildering to be simulated with da zeros and ones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GORDO Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 watch the video i posted damnit, it's a ted talk, about this very thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
encey Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 It's like saying, maybe if we put a zillion pebbles in a pile, they'll turn into the Acropolis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ezkerraldean Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 does anyone know that Harry Ramsden's restaurant just across the road from Cribbs Causeway? it's on a road called Catbrain Hill. wtf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zazen Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 what happens when they plug this thing to the internet? like everyone else, it browses some porn. it googles shit like "cat nip" and "shiny moving things" lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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