Re: SV: [agi] mouse uploading

2007-04-29 Thread Charles D Hixson
--- Från: J. Storrs Hall, PhD. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Skickat: lö 2007-04-28 19:15 Till: agi@v2.listbox.com Ämne: [agi] mouse uploading In case anyone is interested, some folks at IBM Almaden have run a one-hemisphere mouse-brain simulation at the neuron level on a Blue Gene (in 0.1 real time):

SV: [agi] mouse uploading

2007-04-29 Thread Jan Mattsson
ecently I read Kurzweil's "The Singularity is near", that brought me here. /JanM -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: J. Storrs Hall, PhD. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Skickat: lö 2007-04-28 19:15 Till: agi@v2.listbox.com Ämne: [agi] mouse uploading In case anyone is interest

Re: [agi] mouse uploading

2007-04-29 Thread Shane Legg
Numbers for humans vary rather a lot. Some types of cells have up to 200,000 connections (Purkinje neurons) while others have very few. Thus talking about "the" number of synapses per neuron doesn't make much sense. It all depends on which type of neuron etc. you mean. Anyway, when talking abou

Re: [agi] mouse uploading

2007-04-28 Thread Matt Mahoney
Does anyone know if the number of synapses per neuron (8000) for mouse cortical cells also apply to humans? This is the first time I have seen an estimate of this number. I believe the researchers based their mouse simulation on anatomical studies. --- "J. Storrs Hall, PhD." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [agi] mouse uploading

2007-04-28 Thread Bob Mottram
When I first saw this on the BBC web site I thought it looked exciting - maybe the first "upload". But on closer inspection it seems to be less impressive. There is an extremely brief report on what they did, which looks like merely simulating a large number of neurons on a supercomputer, withou

Re: [agi] mouse uploading

2007-04-28 Thread Benjamin Goertzel
The man issue is, we we still have basically no idea of the patterns according to which the neurons in the mouse brain are really interconnected, except in some particular regions ... so semi-randomly hooking up 8 million (well-simulated individually) neurons is not really simulating half a mouse

Re: [agi] mouse uploading

2007-04-28 Thread Lukasz Stafiniak
On 4/28/07, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 01:15:13PM -0400, J. Storrs Hall, PhD. wrote: > In case anyone is interested, some folks at IBM Almaden have run a > one-hemisphere mouse-brain simulation at the neuron level on a Blue Gene (in What they did was running a

Re: [agi] mouse uploading

2007-04-28 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 01:15:13PM -0400, J. Storrs Hall, PhD. wrote: > In case anyone is interested, some folks at IBM Almaden have run a > one-hemisphere mouse-brain simulation at the neuron level on a Blue Gene (in What they did was running a simplified, unrealistic model. It's still a great

[agi] mouse uploading

2007-04-28 Thread J. Storrs Hall, PhD.
In case anyone is interested, some folks at IBM Almaden have run a one-hemisphere mouse-brain simulation at the neuron level on a Blue Gene (in 0.1 real time): http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6600965.stm http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/cascio20070425/ http://www.modha.org/papers/rj1040