The quest to build sentient machines http://www.artificialbrains.com/ Tue, 01 May 2012 12:00:00 +0000 Tue, 01 May 2012 12:00:00 +0000 1800 https://plus.google.com/105594787035213157161/posts/hxG34guqWKG https://plus.google.com/105594787035213157161/posts/hxG34guqWKG Society of Mind artificial intelligence class. David talked about his current research efforts to reverse engineer the C. elegans nervous system. During the Q&A session someone asked how the research is funded. To the surprise and amusement of the audience, David answered that it's personally financed by Larry Page (CEO of Google). The research was also Larry's idea.]]> Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:00:00 +0200 http://www.hrl.com/hrlDocs/pressreleases/2012/prsRls_120323.html http://www.hrl.com/hrlDocs/pressreleases/2012/prsRls_120323.html "A functional hybrid memristor crossbar-array/CMOS system for data storage and neuromorphic applications". The research is funded by the DARPA SyNAPSE program.]]> Fri, 23 Mar 2012 12:00:00 +0100 http://www.artificialbrains.com/openworm http://www.artificialbrains.com/openworm Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:00:00 +0100 http://www.kpbs.org/news/2012/jan/31/digital-brain-works-qualcomm/ http://www.kpbs.org/news/2012/jan/31/digital-brain-works-qualcomm/ Brain Corporation: "The team started out building a retina. They found it responded to optical illusions the same way a human does. They added another layer of cells and it started to find features. They added another layer, it started to find corners and oriented lines. Another layer, it started to find patterns. Today it tracks objects. It's not programmed, it's taught."]]> Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:00:00 +0100 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-changizi-phd/artificial-brains-not-in-_b_1248948.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-changizi-phd/artificial-brains-not-in-_b_1248948.html Caenorhabditis elegans roundworm. If the functioning of these 302 neurons is beyond our grasp, even after decades of study, then we've no hope of soon understanding the many billions of neurons in a mammalian brain.]]> Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:00:00 +0100 http://twitter.com/#!/BrainScaleS/status/161423014053945345 http://twitter.com/#!/BrainScaleS/status/161423014053945345 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:00:00 +0100 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877050911006806 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877050911006806 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:00:00 +0100 http://www.artificialbrains.com/google-x-lab http://www.artificialbrains.com/google-x-lab claimed today that Google has developed a robot that can pass the Turing Test 93% of the time. The claim was posted anonymously to reddit.com by a supposed former Google X Lab employee. The posting is most likely a hoax, but interesting reading nevertheless. It possibly contains some elements of truth, although we don't know which elements.]]> Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:00:00 +0100 http://www.artificialbrains.com/mit-silicon-synapse http://www.artificialbrains.com/mit-silicon-synapse news article and the research paper.]]> Sat, 19 Nov 2011 12:00:00 +0100 http://fora.tv/2011/11/02/David_Eagleman_Will_We_Ever_Understand_the_Brain http://fora.tv/2011/11/02/David_Eagleman_Will_We_Ever_Understand_the_Brain Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:00:00 +0100 http://modha.org/blog/2011/10/cognitive_computing_chip_paper.html http://modha.org/blog/2011/10/cognitive_computing_chip_paper.html Fri, 07 Oct 2011 12:00:00 +0200 http://vimeo.com/28040230 http://vimeo.com/28040230 Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:00:00 +0200