DARPA: Fake Brains, ASAP

[Hans-Georg Michna]

By Noah Shachtman February 12, 2008 | 2:23:00 PM

The Pentagon's mad science division is in a hurry to start
making brains-on-a-chip. According to DARPA's recently-released
budget, the Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable
Electronics (SyNAPSE) program isn't set to being until the next
fiscal year. But the agency is already ramping up preparation
for the program, which promises to "develop a brain inspired
electronic 'chip' that mimics that function, size, and power
consumption of a biological cortex."

...

As compared to biological systems, today's intelligent machines
are less efficient by a factor of one million to one billion in
real world, complex environments. ...

Read the complete article at:
http://gizmodo.com/355666/darpa-building-neuromorphic-brain-on-a-chip-paging-sarah-connor

Hans-Georg
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