Re: The Giant Walkthrough Brain, Community Theatre (Jan. 30-31)
I thoroughly enjoyed the virtual presentation of The Giant Walkthrough Brain, hosted by Jay Ingram, backed by "the world’s first science band", The Free Radicals.
The brain is the most complex organ in the human body. According Dr. Ratnakant Sanjay of Bangalore, India, in just one human brain there is probably more wiring and electrical circuitry than in all the computer systems of the world put together.
In 2011, IBM engineers made two cognitive computer chips that contained about 65,000 electronic synapses, which are like the connections between nerve cells in our brain.
IBM introduced a new chip in 2014 powered by an unprecedented 1 million neurons and 256 million synapses. It is the largest chip IBM has ever built at 5.4 billion transistors, and has an on-chip network of 4,096 neurosynaptic cores.
But just one human brain has billions of nerve cells connected to trillions of synapses.
Will IBM eventually be able to create a neural network equal or greater to the number of connections in the human brain?
If so, will that be the beginning of man creating man in man's image?
Google the short ICR "That's a Fact" video (Imitating Humans), which concludes: "Yes, the most brilliantly engineered machines cannot even come close to the complexity and construction of the human brain, which only a Divine Engineer could have made."
David Buckna