![]() ![]() I’ve met lots of people who think it is a terrible idea.” “This is a project dressed up to get flagship money… I’ve never met anybody who thought it was a good idea. I don’t think that pouring it into a project that most people in the field think is crazy is the right thing to do,” said Geoffrey Hinton, a leading expert in machine learning at the University of Toronto. I think putting a lot of money into understanding how the brain works is an excellent idea. Even with the right technology and enough computing power, fake brains might turn out to be like cold fusion or perpetual motion - ill-conceived pipe dreams that proper scientists have abandoned to cranks and fanatics. It might be impossible.īrains might not be like cuckoo clocks, such that the Swiss can design one, build it, and expect it to go. These schemes are cutting-edge efforts to fulfill the old scientific dream of making a brain from scratch, or at least replicate the workings of the meaty computers inside our skulls. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. ![]()
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