Cat brain-based computer: Scientists perform cat-scale cortical simulations and map the human brain

Skynet to follow.

IBM has announced significant progress toward creating a computer system that simulates and emulates the brain's abilities for sensation, perception, action, interaction and cognition, while rivaling the brain's low power and energy consumption and compact size. Scientists have performed the first near real-time cortical simulation of the brain that exceeds the scale of a cat cortex and contains 1 billion spiking neurons and 10 trillion individual learning synapses. …

Cat brain-based computer: Scientists perform cat-scale cortical simulations and map the human brain

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