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.

Downloading images from your brain

Researchers at the ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories in Japan managed to pull down still images from firing neural patterns directly from people brain.

Read more about this on the original article.

Quite a milestone for Neural Science.

AI going for a "homerun with bases loaded"

IBM has announced it will lead a US government-funded collaboration with 5 universities to make electronic circuits that mimic brains.

Dharmendra Modha (IBM Almaden Research Center) goes like this:

"We are going not just for a homerun, but for a homerun with the bases loaded"

For details see original BBC source.

Sounds like a day to remember.