Artificial brain is the research to develop software and hardware that has cognitive abilities similar to the animal or human brain. The idea plays three important roles in science:
- An ongoing attempt by the neuroscientists to understand how the human brain works.
- A thought experiment in the philosophy of artificial intelligence, demonstrating that it is possible, in theory, to create a machine that has all the capabilities of a human being.
- A serious long term project to create strong AI (a machine as intelligent as a human being), as proposed by Ray Kurzweil and others.
Very different approaches have been popularly termed artificial brains by researchers or the popular press. Some approaches include artificial neurons on a parallel platform, such as e.g. the CAM Brain Machine. Another interesting approach of artificial brain development is based on Holographic Neural Technology (HNeT) non linear phase coherence/decoherence principles. The analogy has been made to quantum processes through the core synaptic algorithm which has strong similarities to the QM wave equation.
Now an artificial brain has been developed for the first time in Aston university in Birmingham, England. The researchers started the project on the premise that the dreaded disease Alzheimer's could be cured.
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Since November 2008, IBM received a $4.9 million grant from the Pentagon for research into creating intelligent computers. The Blue Brain project is being conducted with the assistance of IBM in Lausanne[1]. The project is based on the premise that it is possible to artificially link the neurons "in the computer" by placing thirty million synapses in their proper three-dimensional position.
In March 2008, Blue Brain project was progressing faster than expected: "Consciousness is just a massive amount of information being exchanged by trillions of brain cells[2]." Some proponents of strong AI speculate that computers in connection with Blue Brain and Soul Catcher may exceed human intellectual capacity by around 2015, and that it is likely that we will be able to download the human brain at some time around 2050[3].
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- ^ BBC News
- ^ (English) Out of the blue
- ^ (English) Jaap Bloem, Menno van Doorn, Sander Duivestein, Me the media: rise of the conversation society, VINT reseach Institute of Sogeti, 2009, p.273.
See also
- Artificial intelligence
- Artificial life
- Cognitive architecture
- Intelligent system
- Biological neural networks
- Artificial Intelligence System
- Blue Brain
- EvBrain
- Animat
- Robotic
- Multi-agent system
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