Artificial brain '10 years away'

[JunkBondTrader]

A detailed, functional artificial human brain can be built within the next 10 years, a leading scientist has claimed.

Full story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8164060.stm

[scuba steve]

yes i heard about this a few days ago, this morning actually, it seems freaky as shit that it's so close o god it's the terminator "give me your clothes"

[tripolar]

I did not think that 2 billion people suffered from brain problems, this sounds cool, but it sounds like you have no more feelings. Its but its one of those things you wait and see what happens.

[JackOfClubs]

I think it is amazing how far technology has advanced. For example, 20 years ago, cell phones were massive, now theres the iPhone, etc.

[IAMWILL]

Holy sheizas. That's truly scary.

[ylllek nivyer]

:cry: i'm scared.
i don't like it.
somebody hold me.

[YourFriend]

Sounds unbelieveable.

[INFERNO]

I'm studying neuroscience mostly at university (and physiology, anatomy, psych, etc... also) and I'm rather shocked at how he claimed it's only 10 years away. I do think that this is truly fascinating and if it is in 10 years by some miracle, then I'll already have my doctorate so I can hopefully fiddle with it too.

I do think that in the future artificial brains will be present, although even now, there is just so much we really don't know about the brain at all. So much of it we have really no idea what it does. So to say that in 10 years seems rather optimistic.

Although the part that I'm a bit unsure on is whether or not you can put it into the person and "wire it all up" so-to-speak. Also, I would have to wonder how durable it would be because as we all know, humans are fairly clumsy.

[JunkBondTrader]

I'm studying neuroscience mostly at university (and physiology, anatomy, psych, etc... also) and I'm rather shocked at how he claimed it's only 10 years away. I do think that this is truly fascinating and if it is in 10 years by some miracle, then I'll already have my doctorate so I can hopefully fiddle with it too.

I do think that in the future artificial brains will be present, although even now, there is just so much we really don't know about the brain at all. So much of it we have really no idea what it does. So to say that in 10 years seems rather optimistic.

Although the part that I'm a bit unsure on is whether or not you can put it into the person and "wire it all up" so-to-speak. Also, I would have to wonder how durable it would be because as we all know, humans are fairly clumsy.

To be honest, I also kind of doubt that it'll be here in as soon as ten years. If it cotinues to progress at the same rate, perhaps, but let's face it, these things never do.

However if he had said "more than ten years" then the media wouldn't have picked up on it and I wouldn't know.

[Viral Death]

That is awsome!

[Joshm5816]

That's good! At least we know science is expanding. Now why don't they start working more on stem cell while doing working on teh artifical brain.

[INFERNO]

That's good! At least we know science is expanding. Now why don't they start working more on stem cell while doing working on teh artifical brain.

Science is expanding pretty much every day, just not all the expansions are documented in the media. If you look on pretty much any article database, you'll see that there is so much work being done but not a lot of it catches media attention.

As for the stem cells, there is a lot of work being done on that. However, there are still many ethical and possibly legal issues, but Obama allowed it so it can increase more. However, to show how much it has expanded, they have managed to clone other animals with greater success, such as dogs. There's also a more recent issue of being able to regenerate spinal cords in rats from spinal cord damage (although the rats get blue skin and eyes for only a week then it goes back to normal skin and eye colour).

[changed]

unless it proves to be a success then its nothing exctiting to me lol :p

[scuba steve]

well obama did say he wanted the USA to be top in science research again so who knows what concoctions could pop up soon if only this damn recesion would fuck off

[Requin]

Cool. I like. Next up: The Artificial Human.