Inventor ponders ethics of wiring human brain tissue into computers
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Inventor ponders ethics of wiring human brain tissue into computers
A more controversial application than this scanning-the-brain-to-understand-it scenario is scanning-the-brain-to-download-it. When an entire network of neurons receives input (from the outside world or from other networks of neurons), the signaling amongst them appears at first to be frenzied and random. So the question addressed by the San Diego r... See more
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
The most compelling scenario for mastering the software of intelligence is to tap into the blueprint of the best example we can get our hands on of an intelligent process. There is no reason why we cannot reverse engineer the human brain, and essentially copy its design. We can readily see every neuron and every connection and every neurotransmitte... See more
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
World's first bioprocessor uses 16 human brain organoids for ‘a million times less power’ consumption than a digital chip
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How will we apply the thousands of trillions of bytes of information derived from each brain scan? With this approach, we don’t have to copy every single connection. Although the information contained in a human brain would require thousands of trillions of bytes of information (on the order of 100 billion neurons times an average of 1,000 connecti... See more
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
But in brains it’s presumably different—with every “memory element” (i.e. neuron) also being a potentially active computational element. And if we could set up our future computer hardware this way it might become possible to do training much more efficiently.