IBM have developed a computer system, consisting of two chips, one has 262,144 programmable synapses, while the other contains 65,536 learning synapses, it works in a similar way to brain synapses. When new information is received into the learning chip this little beauty is capable of perceiving the more important information and deciding to use it, whilst applying to a lesser degree, the input that proving to be less helpful.
Some forward thinkers are predicting a future where this technology will reach a tipping point where machine consciousness is possible. However there are those that are more conservative, like Dr Mark Bishop, professor of cognitive computing at Goldsmiths, he says " I understand cognition to be something over and above a process simulated by the execution of mere computations, see such claims as verging on the magical."
IBM has been awarded grant money from US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), $21m USD, for it's work on the synapses project, that make a person wonder.
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