2008/12/21 Ben Goertzel <b...@goertzel.org>: > However, IMO the rhetoric associating it with "thinking machine building" is > premature and borderline dishonest. It's marketing rhetoric. It's more > like "interesting brain simulation research that could eventually play a > role in some future thinking-machine-building project, whose nature remains > largely unspecified."
Yes, which would sound less dramatic. Some time ago there was a similar borderline dishonest report that a mouse brain had been simulated on a supercomputer. This sounded exciting, but it just turns out that they've been able to simulate a number of neuron-like elements (the Izhikevich spiking model, I think) similar in quantity to a mouse-sized brain within some tractable amount of time, which is not quite as impressive. This kind of research is eventually doomed to succeed, but at present we still don't know in detail how even a mouse brain is organized, beyond a fairly gross level of anatomy. Some of the newer techniques, such as genetic modification which gives each neuron a unique colour, should be helpful in this regard. ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=123753653-47f84b Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com