The most accurate simulation of the human brain to date has been carried out in a Japanese supercomputer, with a single second’s worth of activity from just one per cent of the complex organ taking one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers 40 minutes to calculate.
Thoughts?
I just have one concern: I hope that brain simulation doesn't become the basis for AI development as our computing power increases. I wouldn't want my fridge or car to be based on the human mind.
I really enjoy living at this time - where technology and science advances so fast. Cant wait to see stuff thats in our everyday lives 30 years from now :)
Well, according to moore's law, if we need 2400x the processing power, it'll take about 11-12 years (2^11 is 2048, 2^12 is 4096). I'm probably wrong. Someone'll point out some flaw in my math or have some sort of more creditable hypothesis.
Well I think modeling the human brains pattern recognition is the first step to creating true AI. The machines won't have the emotional baggage that we human beings do.
Oh, I somehow missed that it was "just one percent". I don't really think that you can have a 1% of a brain, since it's a complex organ that really needs to be a whole to function.
I think that's a clickbait article, and what really happened is that they just ran a simulation on an unspecific neural network that roughly corresponds 1% of the brain's neural network's size. The Telegraph doesn't have a link to any more sophisticated source, so I'm going to wait until a more science oriented publication reports on this.
You should note that I don't know what I'm talking about.
