Scientists intend to build a supercomputer that simulates the activity of the human brain

Research for the study of the human brain are plenty, and humanity is haunted by the idea to recreate this unique body. Recently a group of researchers from several countries managed to get $ 1, 6 billion to finance an incredibly ambitious project to study the brain.

Over the next ten years, researchers from various fields of science will work to understand the development of the brain. The ultimate goal of the project - to make a map of a network of hundreds of billions of neural connections, which will take into account factors such as random emotions, manifestations of the will, and even self-consciousness, and to create the most powerful supercomputer, capable of self-learning and interaction with the outside world.

The study is planned to build a new platform for neuromorphic computing that will help researchers to develop new computer systems and robots based on the architecture of the brain. Researchers will try to recreate the human brain piece by piece, and eventually combine all these cognitive components into one to create a supercomputer.

The work involved more than 200 researchers from 80 laboratories located throughout the world. In terms of the significance and scale of the project is sometimes compared to the Large Hadron Collider. These studies - an initiative of the European Commission. The bulk of the work is scheduled to take place in Switzerland.

Of course, the experience gained during the project, will not only make the first steps towards the creation of artificial intelligence, but also to better understand how the human brain, and possibly learn how to treat such neurological disorders as Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's.

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via factroom.ru