By: Jabbah
Just to add: The reason it helps researchers is that it provides a way to quickly validate methods of extracting this kind of information. Once reliable methods are found, applying them to more complex...
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The BAA does not mention weighting but does mention synaptic conductance, which is apparently related? Dynamic range of synaptic conductance > 10 • Synaptic conductance increase >1%/pulse for...
View ArticleBy: Gianluca
Define “sane” and “stable” related to a true general purpose A.I. . We don’t know. I guess we first have to find out how it actually behaves.
View ArticleBy: star0
Very interesting… I would like to see it do something really neat, though — something like the Google cat-recognizinig neural network, only better.
View ArticleBy: Ben
The question is: Will it suffer? If we bring an “innocent” being with perfect innocence in our universe, we could theoretically create a whole new kind of suffering. If the being can think a million...
View ArticleBy: Dan
It will not suffer. Suffering is a biological beings way of informing itself that something is to be avoided in order to maintain its ultimate value which is life. A simulated being would need to be...
View ArticleBy: eldras
No Synapse yet. Not mapped. The pivotal brain component, and weighting’s not the half of it. But it;s a good progressive effort.
View ArticleBy: Matthew J Price
Just a small mistake: LLNL’s Sequoia is no longer the world’s fastest supercomputer. Titan now has that distinction, at least for a little while. http://goo.gl/Xx1XN
View ArticleBy: snake0
Very interesting, so in addition to the Connectome, a “Conductome” is also required.
View ArticleBy: Ralph Dratman
At least when you work with a worm you know what the behavior is supposed to look like. When the simulated human brain starts up, what would it do? Breathe and eat and cry, mainly, for the first...
View ArticleBy: Ralph Dratman
Has it occurred to anyone to ask how an artificial, fully non-von-Neumann brain could be persuaded to cooperate? Are you going to stimulate its pleasure centers each time it correctly answers a...
View ArticleBy: MrFriendly
I’m glad to see that DARPA hasn’t completely given up on this project. When Todd Hylton resigned from DARPA, it looked like it was a complete failure. Fortunately, though, it seems they’ve reduced...
View ArticleBy: John
Newborn brain crying for thousand years… oh man, what are these people doing ;’( …
View ArticleBy: Sam
The way you teach a child to behave is with love. Limitless amounts of love and patience, kindness, guidance and boundary setting. Smart machines will have to be managed the same way. We’ll raise them,...
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“This project” refers to SyNAPSE? I’m not aware of any reduction in scope from the original BAA:...
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That assumes addition of reptile brain functionality. Are there any such plans?
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This project milestone involved a software emulation of special-purpose neurosynaptic chips, not a hardware project, and the Sequoia doesn’t use GPUs.
View ArticleBy: James
Presumably if they had an exaflop machine they’d be able to run it at only 16 times slower than real time, and that’s probably only 5-6 years away.
View ArticleBy: MrFriendly
Darpa has dropped quite a few labs/collaborators since last year, including Stanford, Boston University, and HP. Apparently, the goal of developing autonomous robots for the battlefield have been...
View ArticleBy: Tony Stender
Does anyone know how the IBM synapse machine design compares to Jeff Hawkins design for cortex columns he is using in his latest work? As for emotion, I have given it some thought. It seems to be...
View ArticleBy: Anon User
4:35 ‘…cognitive computing is only possible within IBM…’ BS ‘…where else could you bring together so many disparate technologies and people…’ within any enthusiastic community with sufficient...
View ArticleBy: obilesk
I love this answer. You have won the internet-etiquette award for the day. Thank you.
View ArticleBy: A4i
IBM should build that neurosynaptic core on 20nm process and pack at least 250 cores on a die. Also MCM should be used to incorporate 4 dies (1000 cores) on a module. Also at least 4 modules should be...
View ArticleBy: Ralph Dratman
Exactly. And to incorporate a reptile brain into a human brain means first building a reptile brain whose reptile can live on its own. And to build a reptile brain means building whatever simpler brain...
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Perhaps one day, millennia hence, our machine-merged progency will say the same: “To incorporate a cerebrum into a metahuman brain means first building a human brain….”?
View ArticleBy: derek
each step toward technology being able to match human thinking power is one step closer to making humans the second dominant species. do not enable computers to learn by themselves. keep them only...
View ArticleBy: netesq
Editors: Please note that “billon” is misspelled in the title. Should be “billion.”
View ArticleBy: Adam
Disgusting. You cower in the face of greatness because it exceeds your own limitations.
View ArticleBy: James Bleep
A lot of useful civilian technology comes out of DoD research, like err, the internet.
View ArticleBy: GAUSS
You can get a neural network to recognize a wide variety of images with different scales, orientations and such on just 1,000 simulated neurons. I really don’y see why Google needed to use thousands of...
View ArticleBy: Leonard Lehman
Is it true that what ever logic can be made in hardware can be done in software? Its not a question of speed as much as how wide the bus is. What the brain does well is discounts or priortizes...
View ArticleBy: Leonard Lehman
Don’t worry folks, this idea will burn out like a long ago memory. This will take 200+ years to become a reality, by that time we humans will have destroyed are planet with no hope of leaving in time...
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