The Minority Report

I dated a girl that worked on integrating electronics into rat brains. If I get brave someday, I might post a few of her emails and exactly what she thought of my rat brain.

Considering that they have connected neurons to silicon…Terminators aren’t far off. Or keeping with our Battlestar Galactica finale week, Cylon^W skinjobs.

An international team of scientists in Europe has created a silicon chip designed to function like a human brain. With 200,000 neurons linked up by 50 million synaptic connections, the chip is able to mimic the brain’s ability to learn more closely than any other machine.

Although the chip has a fraction of the number of neurons or connections found in a brain, its design allows it to be scaled up, says Karlheinz Meier, a physicist at Heidelberg University, in Germany, who has coordinated the Fast Analog Computing with Emergent Transient States project, or FACETS.
Technology Review: Building a Brain on a Silicon Chip