Mike, 

 

Thanks for the heads up.  Maybe the project will go nowhere.

 

But to me the fact that he has been able to create any sort of neural net
with 50K to 100K nodes, with presumably a potential connectivity as high at
human neurons (i.e., upto 10K synapses) is impressive.  

 

Presumably with a much less than the cost of a current micro-electonic fab
line (i.e., several billion dollars) in terms of research and development,
people might be able to build systems with 100s of billion of neurons on top
of high speed control and communication electronics, for relative low
prices.  It suggests wetware supplemented hardware could, perhaps, prove to
be the earliest, cheapest path to computing platforms capable of human level
AGI at a reasonable cost and at reasonable levels of power consumption.

 

Ed Porter

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Tintner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 8:05 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [agi] Meet the world's first robot controlled exclusively by
living brain tissue

 

Thanks, Ed. My casual impression is that the scientist here, Kevin Warwick,
is un peu d'un nut - although skilled at self-publicising. Some years ago,
he had a chip sewn into his arm. He was going to open doors with it and
other stuff. Anyone know what happened with that?

Ed: "A 'Frankenrobot' with a biological brain  

Meet Gordon, probably the world's first robot controlled exclusively by
living brain tissue."  

Article at 

 
<http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080813192458.ud84hj9h&show_article=
1>
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080813192458.ud84hj9h&show_article=1


 

 

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