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Summary: "HBP researchers at the Institute of Biophysics of the National Research Council (IBF-CNR) in Palermo, Italy, have mimicked the neuronal architecture and connections of the brain’s hippocampus to develop a robotic platform capable of learning as humans do while the robot navigates around a space. The simulated hippocampus is able to alter its own synaptic connections as it moves a car-like virtual robot" (The Human Brain Project). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Before you respond, please read my response about how to create safe and real AI. Because I use terms that I make up for clear comprehension. (Link to my reply in the section below) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My thoughts In my opinion, this is exactly the way AI needs to go. In order to properly create safe and real AI, you need to make it think like a human. The next step (That I would like to see happen) is to simulate emotions. Yes. Real (Or as real as you can get with simulation) emotions. This is very hopeful. However, if you can simulate the hippocampus, you can simulate other parts of the brain, right? How about simulating a part of the brain that stimulates emotions? Now you might think this will get out of control. But, if we do it right, (and if doing it right gives the outcome I expect) I think this could be a great step forward for AI. Now, the method I described did not mention simulating the brain down to the neuron. But merely described emulating emotions with deep learning. However, since this technology has been announced, I think it would do well if the two computers in my explanation below were replaced with a simulation of the hippocampus (conscious), and a simulation of the amygdala (subconscious) once our understanding of the human brain, and human emotions has increased. My full explanation of why, and how to create safe and real AI is here: ------------------------------------> https://linustechtips.com/topic/1500586-ai-is-a-big-scam/page/3/#comment-15896485 <----------------------------------------- Sources https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/en/follow-hbp/news/2023/04/17/brain-model-learns-drive/

Researchers have warned that we will be more easily forget the information we can get from our cell phones, such as the important numbers of our family, a person's address or even important dates. Scientists say, Digital Amnesia is the result of adaptation of our brain where information can easily get as mobile phones and the Internet are always available and easily accessible. Security firm Kaspersky Lab said "The connected device did help our daily lives, but they also lead to the emergence of Digital Amnesia in our brain. ' As a consumer, it is important for us all to understand the long term implications of this effect, and why we need to be diligent in view of the information and protect memories and our precious memories. Kaspersky Lab conducted a study of 1,000 consumers in the United States consisting of age 16 years and over and found signs of Digital Amnesia found in all age groups and both men and women equal. The survey resulted that 91 percent of consumers recognize their dependence on the internet and smartphones as a means to store information or retrieve information and become a kind of additional memory of their brains. These findings also indicate that our inability to save important information is due to the fact that we hand over responsibility to remember to a digital device. Almost half (44%) of survey participants said that their smartphones to store almost everything they needed to know or recall. It is not surprising that the research conducted by Kaspersky Lab also found that the loss or compromise of data stored on digital devices and smartphone in particular, will make many users overwhelmed. More than half (51%) of female respondents and nearly the same amount of users aged 25 to 34 years (49%) will be overwhelmed with grief that hit because they have memories stored on their devices they believe memories will not return when the device is damaged or missing. A quarter of female respondents and 35% of respondents of young people (16-24) will panic: the device they are the only place where they store pictures and contact information. Source : Kliknklik Tech Blog Very scary .... what do you think about digital amnesia ?

Some researchers from the University of Washington in Seattle dropped a really interesting paper that shows a glimpse of what is to come. Link to the full paper. Their project consisted of individuals playing a game while receiving input only in the form of direct brain stimulation. Most impressively, this is noninvasive. The game they exhibited this on is fairly simple, but is still the first example of artificial sensory input. Even beyond games, this is potentially a whole new medium. What are you hopeful can come out of this?

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Before i start posting my theory i want to say that my "theory" is purely a speculation , and it's only somewhat viable if everything stays the same (no major wars no technical difficulties ) and everything moves smoothly. Thinking classically , for the real time brain simulation in your pocket , it would take till ~2080. But i think realistically it would take x amount of years , until we reach a manufacturing process which is smaller by a whole magnitude as of today . For example not 22nm but 22 pm (picometer). What dou you guys think , how much years do you think we need for such a computer to be in our pocket ?

By mimicking the brain’s billions of interconnections and pattern recognition capabilities, we may ultimately introduce a new paradigm in speed and power, and potentially enable systems that include the ability to learn, adapt and respond to their environment Source: http://news.boisestate.edu/blog/boise-state-research-team-building-a-computer-chip-based-on-the-human-brain/

So if you could take your brain and put it into a robot that looked like a human, would you? This would (potentially) greatly expand your lifespan. Let me know your thoughts. Would you pay for this, if so how much? Do you think it's unethical? Would you want to have the potential to live forever? Do you think this could even be possible?

So guys, This is something random I came across and thought you'd find interesting! What side is more dominant for you? Left or right? I personally got 50/50 on this! http://en.sommer-sommer.com/braintest/ Don't forget to post your results here!

*NOTE: The following text comes directly from the article and has been specifically picked out to summarize the article, I do not own any of the written articles below. How to Build a Brain-like Computer: What if you could build a computer that works just like the human brain? The Human Brain Project kicks off Oct. 7 at a conference in Switzerland. Over the next 10 years, about 80 science institutions and at least 20 government entities in Europe will figure out how to make that computer brain. The project will cost about $1.2 billion euros -- or about $1.6 billion in US dollars.The research hinges on creating a super-powerful computer that’s 1,000 times faster than those in use today. If you’re keeping track, that’s an “exascale” supercomputer, one fast enough to model a nuclear explosion or the complex, planetwide forces that shape the climate. Just a few years ago, scientists started using “petascale” supercomputers like Blue Waters at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) in Illinois that went online last year.“Well-known manufacturers of supercomputers like IBM, Cray, Intel, and Bull, are committed to building the first exascale machines by approximately 2020. So we are confident we will have the machines we need,” Henry Markram, the director of the Human Brain Project at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, told FoxNews.com. Markram also directs the Blue Brain project started in 2005 that hopes to reverse-engineering the human brain by rebuilding the molecules. The brain is the least understood organ in the human body. We don’t really know how the brain controls our thoughts, our bodily functions, or our behavior. And, Markham says the lack of processing power in modern computer is the least of our worries. He says a computer brain will consume gigawatts of power, require new forms of memory, and force scientists to look at cutting edge storage techniques. But the immense technical hurdles will be worth the effort. Article: http://news.discovery.com/tech/gear-and-gadgets/how-build-brainlike-computer-131007.htm Original: http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/10/07/how-to-build-human-brain-with-computer/ Nobel for Trio Who Took Chemistry to Cyberspace: Stockholm — Three scientists won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry on Wednesday for developing computer models to simulate chemical processes, providing a revolutionary tool for drug designers and engineers. Martin Karplus, a U.S.-Austrian citizen, Michael Levitt, a U.S.-British citizen, and Arieh Warshel of the United States and Israel were honored "for the development of multi-scale models for complex chemical systems," the Nobel jury said. He said that it was "essentially" this programme that lay at the core of Wednesday's Nobel prize, and people benefitted from it to this day. "I was speaking to a doctoral student yesterday and he was able to do a calculation that used to take two hours and now takes a 100th of a second," Levitt said. "It makes a huge difference!" The three combined classical physics with quantum physics -- two previously rival worlds -- in computer models designed to predict chemical reactions.Such reactions can take place, for instance, between industrial chemicals or in biological functions, when an enzyme cuts a protein, a virus penetrates a cell or or a cell divides.The processes can happen in a fraction of a millisecond, defeating conventional algorithms that try to map them step by step. By including quantum physics in the computational mix, the number of permutations for calculation rises hugely, as they incorporate the possibility that an atom is in one of several of the famously fickle quantum states at any time in the processes.This also requires enormous computer power to crunch the data. "Exactly how far they can advance our knowledge is for the future to decide." Computer models had also radically changed the ways chemists do their work, the academy observed. "Today the computer is just as important a tool for chemists as the test tube," it said. The trio will share the prize sum of eight million Swedish kronor ($1.25 million, 925,000 euros), reduced because of the economic crisis last year from the 10 million kronor awarded since 2001. Article: http://news.discovery.com/tech/biotechnology/nobel-for-trio-who-took-chemistry-to-cyberspace-131009.htm Original: [uNKNOWN] Possibly this one ^

http://hexus.net/tech/news/cpu/61205-qualcomm-unveils-brain-inspired-zeroth-chips/ The new processor is said to “mimic the human brain and nervous system”. The chip making firm designed these processors with the aim of enabling future mobile computing devices to be “smarter, anticipate our needs, and share our perception of the world so we can interact with them more naturally”. The new processing architecture which has been created, defined and standardised by the first Qualcomm Zeroth Processor is called the Neural Processing Unit (NPU). It will: Learn the way biological brains do Enable devices to see the world as humans do Define and create a new class of processor – the NPU It is foreseen that these NPUs will become part of future SoC designs in a variety of personal technology devices. Users will then be able to train their devices to intelligently undertake certain functions on their behalf.