[Link] Scientists to simulate human brain inside a supercomputer

[Tuxedage]

I saw this on Reddit, I thought I’d share it here.

http://​​edition.cnn.com/​​2012/​​10/​​12/​​tech/​​human-brain-computer/​​index.html?hpt=hp_t3

Any thoughts?

[Vladimir_Nesov]

“Scientists to simulate human brain inside a supercomputer”

The title of this post is denotationally insane (it’s obvious that nobody is close to simulating a human brain yet, so the title must be a sensational misrepresentation).

[Dolores1984]

Simply to replicate one of the 10,000 neuron brain cells involved in the rat experiment took the processing capacity usually found in a single laptop.

Good lord, what sort of neuron model are they running? There had got to be a way to optimize that.

[shminux]

Previously on Less Wrong.

[ewang]

Anyone looking for more information should search for the term “Blue Brain Project”, as the project had (under that name) actually achieved something.