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Canadian scientists create a functioning, virtual brain

Oldbitcollector (Jeff)Oldbitcollector (Jeff) Posts: 8,091
edited 2012-12-01 07:42 in General Discussion
I feel less intimidated by this knowing Canadians created it. At least it will be a kind brain. ;)

http://www.canada.com/news/Canadian+scientists+create+functioning+virtual+brain/7628440/story.html

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  • ElectricAyeElectricAye Posts: 4,561
    edited 2012-11-30 08:56
    Once they get all the bugs out of it, I wonder if the virtual brain will have the guts to tell its creators they're clueless.
  • LeonLeon Posts: 7,620
    edited 2012-11-30 09:01
    I just heard an interview with the designer on the BBC Science in Action radio programme.
  • mindrobotsmindrobots Posts: 6,506
    edited 2012-11-30 09:12
    This just made me realize we haven't heard from Humanoido lately and he was talking about moving his lab and the big brains "somewhere" stateside at one point......Canada is close, eh?
  • Beau SchwabeBeau Schwabe Posts: 6,568
    edited 2012-11-30 09:49
    Interesting! ... I saw a show the other day on the History Channel "How the Earth made man" ... One of the things that separate us from other animals is believed to be a "glitch" in our own evolution that allows us to experience D
  • localrogerlocalroger Posts: 3,452
    edited 2012-11-30 17:46
    But does it SQUAWK?

    /max headroom showing my age get off my lawn
  • rod1963rod1963 Posts: 752
    edited 2012-11-30 20:22
    Not even as advanced as a Corvid's brain. Not much to brag about at this time. Still it's better than all those other failed attempts by the artificially intelligent - by that I mean the scientists over the last two decades. I think about all those LISP Machines at the bottom of Boston Harbor or Encyc.

    I can see lots uses for it in military, law enforcement and surveillance apps once they refine it and can work on a cheap piece of silicon. Here come the hunter-killer drones.
  • prof_brainoprof_braino Posts: 4,313
    edited 2012-12-01 07:42
    rod1963 wrote: »
    Not much to brag about at this time.

    Were you John Travolta's dad in Saturday Night Fever?
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