Scientists for IBM are hard at work attemping to reverse engineer the brain. This is something else straight out of the pages of Ghost in the Shell. They’ve already successfully done it for the rat brain.
Markram and his Blue Brain team at the Ecole Poltechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland, have already achieved phase I of their ambitious project, by developing a simulation model of a component of a rat’s brain known as a cortical column, comprised of 10,000 working neurons.
The creation of artificial intelligence may no longer reside only in the realm of science fiction, with the recent announcement from Henry Markram of the IBM Blue Brain project, at the TED Global conference in Oxford, England that he plans to build an electronic model of the human brain within 10 years.
From Chattahbox
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