Brain modeling certainly does seem to be in the news lately. Checking out nextbigfuture.com, I was reading about that petaflop computer Roadrunner and articles about it say that they are or will soon be emulating the entire visual cortex -- a billion neurons. I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks that knowing what the cortex does and roughly how it does it could be quite inspiring for AGI, so I was surprised at this news. Does anybody have links to more information (besides the short recent mainstream news story)? Are they just being enthusiastic about their big computer or do they have a sophisticated theory?
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