IBM produces first 'brain chips'

[Gerald]

IBM has developed a microprocessor which it claims comes closer than ever to replicating the human brain.

The system is capable of "rewiring" its connections as it encounters new information, similar to the way biological synapses work.

Researchers believe that that by replicating that feature, the technology could start to learn.

Cognitive computers may eventually be used for understanding human behaviour as well as environmental monitoring.


IBM's processors replicate the system of synaptic connections found in the human brain.

Dharmendra Modha, IBM's project leader, explained that they were trying to recreate aspects of the mind such as emotion, perception, sensation and cognition by "reverse engineering the brain."

The SyNAPSE system uses two prototype "neurosynaptic computing chips". Both have 256 computational cores, which the scientists described as the electronic equivalent of neurons.

One chip has 262,144 programmable synapses, while the other contains 65,536 learning synapses.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14574747


Note: 18 August 2011 Last updated at 13:49 GMT

[Gerald]

More than 20 viewers, and it could mean that 20 has a chip installed already, which explains in part the action takes place as in "Westworld" which robotic taken to apply ... but no answers,

[FIREWALL]

I just got here. I was going to post somethhing simular.

Very interesting article Vendor.

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by FIREWALL

I just got here. I was going to post somethhing simular.

Very interesting article Vendor.

Thanks,

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by FIREWALL

I just got here. I was going to post somethhing simular.

Very interesting article Vendor.

+1

All just add this colo(u)r commentary:

So, since the chip mimics the human brain, does they male chip think about sex non stop and the female chip think about shopping non stop?

[Gerald]

Interesting question,

[MothBalls]

So many questions....

How do you teach it the difference between good and evil?

Will it be "born" with instincts?

How do you teach it to learn in the first place?

The most important thing we learn (and some don't ever learn it) is how to learn. How to take the sum of our experiences and knowledge and put them to the best use. In this learning process, we make mistakes. How do you tell it to recognize a mistake?

So many questions....

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

+1

All just add this colo(u)r commentary:

So, since the chip mimics the human brain, does they male chip think about sex non stop and the female chip think about shopping non stop?

Nah, that's not the chip, that's the fish...comes with a ten second retention factor

[Growler]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Nah, that's not the chip, that's the fish...comes with a ten second retention factor

Uh, wut?

I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.