Future of Engineering
Monday, March 24, 2008
Reverse Engineering Our Brains
Recently, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) unveiled 14 grand challenges for the 21st century. One of the challenges, is "Reverse-engineer the brain" with the subtext that "The intersection of engineering and neuroscience promises great advances in health care, manufacturing, and communication."...
An excerpt from the site:
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For decades, some of engineering’s best minds have focused their thinking skills on how to create thinking machines — computers capable of emulating human intelligence.
Why should you reverse-engineer the brain?
While some of thinking machines have mastered specific narrow skills — playing chess, for instance — general-purpose artificial intelligence (AI) has remained elusive.
Part of the problem, some experts now believe, is that artificial brains have been designed without much attention to real ones. Pioneers of artificial intelligence approached thinking the way that aeronautical engineers approached flying without much learning from birds. It has turned out, though, that the secrets about how living brains work may offer the best guide to engineering the artificial variety. Discovering those secrets by reverse-engineering the brain promises enormous opportunities for reproducing intelligence the way assembly lines spit out cars or computers."
Interesting!
Via: Cognitive Computing Blog
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An excerpt from the site:
"
For decades, some of engineering’s best minds have focused their thinking skills on how to create thinking machines — computers capable of emulating human intelligence.
Why should you reverse-engineer the brain?
While some of thinking machines have mastered specific narrow skills — playing chess, for instance — general-purpose artificial intelligence (AI) has remained elusive.
Part of the problem, some experts now believe, is that artificial brains have been designed without much attention to real ones. Pioneers of artificial intelligence approached thinking the way that aeronautical engineers approached flying without much learning from birds. It has turned out, though, that the secrets about how living brains work may offer the best guide to engineering the artificial variety. Discovering those secrets by reverse-engineering the brain promises enormous opportunities for reproducing intelligence the way assembly lines spit out cars or computers."
Interesting!
Via: Cognitive Computing Blog
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Reverse engineering the brain
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