Developed
by neuroscientists and software engineers at the University of Waterloo
in Canada, Spaun includes a 784-pixel digital eye, and a robotic arm for
writing, but the real meat of it is its 2.5 million simulated neurons
which are used to emulate parts of a human brain like the prefrontal
cortex, basal ganglia, and thalamus. Using all those neurons, it can
think through questions and solve limited problems the same way a human
brain can, albeit in a much more finite sense.
Even though
its makers claim it is the "most complex" artificial brain in
existence, it's tricks are pretty scant; it mostly does things like
recognize patterns and (mis)remember long strings of numbers. Which is
pretty much what it takes to be able to struggle through most of an IQ
test, even if it's a low score. The impressive thing here isn't so much
what Spaun can do, but what it can do considering it's built to act like
a real, pulsing, fleshy brain.
In the
future, research leader Chris Eliasmith hopes to teach Spaun to learn
just by doing, a skill that's both awesome and horrifying in its
potential. And in the meantime, you can actually download your own Spaun, since he's open-source.mindmodeling website
aihub
CNRG lab of Waterloo U , Canada
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