News The world's most powerful artificial brain powered up

[rahullak]

The world's largest supercomputer designed to work in the same way as the human brain has been switched on for the first time.

The newly formed million-processor-core Spiking Neural Network Architecture (SpiNNaker) machine is capable of completing more than 200 million million actions per second, with each of its chips having 100 million transistors.

To reach this point it has taken 15million in funding, 20 years in conception and over 10 years in construction, with the initial build starting way back in 2006, according to a statement.

https://www.theweek.in/news/sci-tec...ost-powerful-artificial-brain-powered-up.html


Not quite a "positronic" net. But it's getting there.

 

[Santaman]

The second they hook it up to anything online I'll dive into my fallout shelter.. also if they rename it to Skynet..

In all seriousness, quite interesting, will emulate 1000 neurons, not quite at human level yet then, the cerebral cortex has 10 -20 billion neurons, the cerebellum 55-70 billion Neurons.

 

[rahullak]

The second they hook it up to anything online I'll dive into my fallout shelter.. also if they rename it to Skynet..

In all seriousness, quite interesting, will emulate 1000 neurons, not quite at human level yet then, the cerebral cortex has 10 -20 billion neurons, the cerebellum 55-70 billion Neurons.

I think the article mentioned a million neurons. Which is still not at human level yet.

"The ultimate objective for the project has always been a million cores in a single computer for real time brain modelling applications, and we have now achieved it, which is fantastic," said Furber.

Researchers eventually aim to model up to a billion biological neurons in real time and are now a step closer. To give an idea of scale, a mouse brain consists of around 100 million neurons and the human brain is 1,000 times bigger than that.

 

[think]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tonybr...preview-of-our-potential-future/#499c681f292c

Facebook shut down an artificial intelligence engine after developers discovered that the AI had created its own unique language that humans can’t understand. Researchers at the Facebook AI Research Lab (FAIR) found that the chatbots had deviated from the script and were communicating in a new language developed without human input. It is as concerning as it is amazing – simultaneously a glimpse of both the awesome and horrifying potential of AI

 

[rahullak]

Sooner or later...

I hope all these research centers are sufficiently air-gapping their systems. Don't want no rogue AI rampaging the Internet.

 

[publiusr]

I have no mouth yet I must scream

 

[Santaman]

I guess that if that thing has a program error they'll call it a brainfart...