Henry Markram has funding to simulate the human brain by 2022
Henry Markram is a South-African Israeli who has quite a bit of funding to accomplish
his goal of simulating the rat's brain at first and then the human brain later. This will
require the use of a powerful supercomputer which has not been invented yet.
Henry stated in 2010 that he could do this by 2018, but I am giving him four more years
to accomplish his goal.
Tens of Millions of Euros have flooded into his labratory called the Brain Mind Institute
at the Ecole Polytechnique in Lausanne Switzerland. Sources of funds include the Swiss
Government, the EU and IBM. As we know from Deep Blue playing chess and Watson
playing Jeopardy, IBM is very serious at winning the race to create a supercomputer who
can beat the human mind at anything.
As of 2010, the Internet-connected computers had DRAM which was the equivalent of a
single human mind. This DRAM is doubling every 6 months and so it should equal
over 4 million human minds by 2022.
This project will discect the human brain and record the cells and their connections to
each other. He states that the IBM Blue Gene computer is capable of simulating one
neocortical column in a rat and that the next computer will simulate a whole rat brain.
After that he will require a billion dollar computer to simulate the human brain. He
may not have to pay that much for this last computer because advances in technology
are bringing down the price.
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Henry Markram is a South-African Israeli who has quite a bit of funding to accomplish
his goal of simulating the rat's brain at first and then the human brain later. This will
require the use of a powerful supercomputer which has not been invented yet.
Henry stated in 2010 that he could do this by 2018, but I am giving him four more years
to accomplish his goal.
Tens of Millions of Euros have flooded into his labratory called the Brain Mind Institute
at the Ecole Polytechnique in Lausanne Switzerland. Sources of funds include the Swiss
Government, the EU and IBM. As we know from Deep Blue playing chess and Watson
playing Jeopardy, IBM is very serious at winning the race to create a supercomputer who
can beat the human mind at anything.
As of 2010, the Internet-connected computers had DRAM which was the equivalent of a
single human mind. This DRAM is doubling every 6 months and so it should equal
over 4 million human minds by 2022.
This project will discect the human brain and record the cells and their connections to
each other. He states that the IBM Blue Gene computer is capable of simulating one
neocortical column in a rat and that the next computer will simulate a whole rat brain.
After that he will require a billion dollar computer to simulate the human brain. He
may not have to pay that much for this last computer because advances in technology
are bringing down the price.
Next
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