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Posted: 19 November 2009 09:15 AM   [ Ignore ]
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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 12:42 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]
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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 02:40 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]
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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 09:03 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]
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They’ve made Hex?

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Posted: 21 November 2009 07:53 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]
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gray - 19 November 2009 07:40 PM

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

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