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Learn Like A Human, IEEE Spectrum
 









Excerpts:     GOLDENROD: The neocortex, the seat of human reasoning, is an
astonishing organ. Its 30 billion or so neurons are organized in six layers,
each about the thickness of a playing card. The picture here, an image from the
Blue Brain Project, shows neurons from the fifth layer. The Blue Brain Project
is a joint research effort by IBM and the Ecole Polytechnique F?d?rale de
Lausanne to study the brain using IBM's Blue Gene supercomputing system. 
PHOTO:IBM/EPFL     Turing's behavioral framing of the problem has led
researchers away from the most promising avenue of study: the human brain. It is
clear to many people that the brain must work in ways that are very different
from digital computers. To build intelligent machines, then, why not understand
how the brain works, and then ask how we can replicate it?  My colleagues and I
have been pursuing that approach for several years. We've focused on the brain's
neocortex, and we have made significant progress in understanding how it works.
Source: Learn Like A Human[ http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/apr07/4982 ], Jeff
Hawkins, IEEE Spectrum, 07/04

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