Scientists at one of Switzerland's most creepily named research labs, The Brain Mind Institute, have reached a major milestone in their work with IBM to create a model of the brain. The project, which aims to "create a modeling tool that can be used by neuroscientists to run experiments," completed its first computer-simulated neocortical column, one of the most complicated parts of the brain. This breakthrough suggests that a full computer simulation of the brain may be less than a decade away.While this clearly poses some incredible possibilities for the advancement of neuroscience, it's sometimes the most well-intentioned research that presents the most frightening possibilities. Once the brain model is developed, how long until it gets sick of being constantly experimented on, and decides to lead an army of space pirates into a series of underground tunnels on a distant planet in an attempt to take over the galaxy? Five years? Ten?
If this research is to continue, our only hope may be to begin developing an ice beam immediately.
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i m from russia. and i doubt that ai will be so soon available. i learned about neural nets and that other stuff. and it is far of being ideal and really working. but we can wait ai comming in nearly 2012..
p.s. i support you fear about robots. it is really frightening
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