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We are doomed: IBM makes supercomputer significantly smarter than cat

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Posted: 19 November 2009 08:15 AM

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IBM has announced a software simulation of a mammalian cerebral cortex that’s significantly more complex than the cortex of a cat. And, just like the actual brain that it simulates, they still have to figure out how it works.

Source: Ars Technica

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Posted: 19 November 2009 11:42 AM

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And now they need a computer engineering degree just to clean out its catbox.

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Posted: 19 November 2009 01:40 PM

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They built it but they don’t know how it works. Isn’t there something scary about that?

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Posted: 20 November 2009 08:03 PM

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