More on the simulated brain

Here’s an interesting Q&A about the effort to simulate the human brain using a supercomputer.

An in response to my question, ignored in most of the news items I’ve seen, about the possible emergence of intelligence…

“Q: How do you relate your research to the field of artificial intelligence?

“HM: We are not trying to create a specific form of intelligence, but rather trying to understand the emergence of mammalian intelligence. We will of course be examining the computational power of the NCC. In particular, we will explore the ability of the NCC to act as a Liquid Computer (a form of analog computer that handles continuous data streams). This could be used for dynamic vision and scene segmentation, real-time auditory processing, as well as sensory-motor integration for robotics. Another special ability of the neocortex is the ability to predict into the future based on current data (the birth of cognition) and so we will examine the ability of the NCC to make intelligent predictions on complex data. We will also examine other forms of computing that can be used – perhaps hybrid digital-analog computing, but this is quite far in the future.”

Sounds to me like they’re being cautious, but they’re not ruling anything out.

Exciting project, whatever comes of it.

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