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The brain of the cat cloned into a chip

Carryover from an article published today Republic on an important news in the field of artificial intelligence . He still talks about Blue Gene (we had talked about here ) and progress in the path of artificial reproduction of the functioning of the human brain .

Republic headline: "The brain of the cat cloned into a chip." The study by scientists IBM and Stanford University . "We will to the robot cognition. " "Ten years from now also realize that human"

The step was taken by scientists at IBM's Almaden Research Center (USA) with colleagues at Stanford University and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. In practice, using the supercomputer, "Blue Gene 'of Livermore have reproduced and put into action the cerebral cortex of a cat with a billion neurons and ten thousand billion of synaptic connections.

For further information in Italian, here's article Republic. But here

a nice article on the history and on the future of the project taken from the spectrum.