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Re: IBM demos cognitive computer chips

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On Thursday, August 18, 2011 7:37:18 PM UTC-5, EricP wrote:
> Brett Davis wrote:
> > IBM demos cognitive computer chips
> > http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4218883/IBM-demos-cognitive-computer-chips
> > 
> > DARPA shells out $21m for IBM cat brain chip
> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/18/ibm_darpa_synapse_project/
> > 
> > The direction toward a AI brain is clear.
> > We can build it, as I pointed out before.
> 
> Following the bread crumbs... also see
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SyNAPSE
> 
> This is a good description:
> 
> Fuzzy logic and memristive hardware
> http://www.neurdon.com/2011/08/09/development-of-massively-parallel-fuzzy-adaptive-neural-algorithms-for-efficient-implementation-on-memristive-hardware/
> 
> http://nl.bu.edu/research/overview/
> 
> Adaptive Computation with Memristive Memory (2011)
> http://maxversace.com/files/IEEE_Computer_cover_feature_Feb_2011.pdf

New breakthrough in brain knowledge, we now know that the wiring is a simple grid!
http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2012/03/30/Brain-wiring-a-simple-grid-no-diagonals/UPI-65441333153454/

With 20/20 hindsight diagonals do not buy you much, and the complexity for genes to 
preprogram diagonals is not cost effective, for the parts that are hardwired.

We can understand and build similar computer hardware, programmable chips are also 
built in grids and you fuse the intersections.

A computer system with human level intelligence can and will be built in the next decade 
or two with the help of advances in this brain scanning.
In ~three decades we could download a (dead) brain to a computer.
In ~four decades perhaps downloading your consciousness to a decanted clone.
Thats about the time I should be kicking the bucket, maybe I will live forever. ;)

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