Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Simulated brain closer to thought

Remarkable milestone for the field of neuroscience and AI in general.

A detailed simulation of a small region of a brain built molecule by molecule has been constructed and has recreated experimental results from real brains.

Scaling the simulation to the human brain is only a matter of money, says the project's head.


"It's a matter of if society wants this. If they want it in 10 years, they'll have it in 10 years."
Henry Markram
Brain Mind Institute

Read more here.