A routine traffic stop in Switzerland nabbed three members of Italian anarchist group Il Silvestre, who are accused of planning to detonate explosives at an IBM facility where nanotechnology and biotechnology research is scheduled to take place: Swiss police said today that their car was halted on the night of April 15 at Langnau en-route [...]
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Did IBM overstate “simulated cat brain” claims?
Last week I wrote about IBM’s announcement that a research team had created the “largest artificial brain ever,” which they compared to the size of a cat’s brain. It turns out that some of these claims may have been hyperbole. Henry Markram, the lead at the Blue Brain Project (which describes itself as the “first [...]
IBM researchers to create virtual world for supercomputer to explore
Today researchers at IBM’s Almaden research center unveiled the “biggest artificial brain ever,” which is described as being as large as a cat’s brain. The hardware is impressive, consisting of 147,456 CPUs, but what is even more compelling is how the team plans to “teach” the computer – by creating a virtual world in which [...]