Is The Singularity Near?
November 25th, 2008 
Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Environments, Health, Innovation, New Media 
Mark Kizelshteyn
The BBC published an article titled “IBM plans ‘brain-like’ computers.” The BBC explain IBM will be working on a collaborative project with the government to create a circuit that simulates the human brain. This emerging field is called Cognitive Computing and the discipline seeks “to engineer mind-like intelligent machines by reverse engineering the structure, dynamics, function and behaviour of the brain.”
The article notes:
“IBM will join five US universities in an ambitious effort to integrate what is known from real biological systems with the results of supercomputer simulations of neurons. The team will then aim to produce for the first time an electronic system that behaves as the simulations do. The longer-term goal is to create a system with the level of complexity of a cat’s brain. ”
Kurzweil must be psyched he’s taking all those supplements. We’re getting close, but still have a little ways to go to truly backwards program the brain.
I am weary about the ethical implications of achieving a feat like this, but I do believe it is important to continue with this sort of research as the medical and technological benefits are endless. I am excited to see the development of this bio-technology throughout my lifetime; nonetheless, we must be conscious of the ancillary effects.
Via The BBC (Thanks!)
Tags: Biotechnology, Brain, Cognitive Computing, Singularity
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