IBM Could Have Fully Working Human Brain Made Out Of Electronics By 2019.

Humanity seems dead-set on forcing its own obsolescence. Hey let’s just created flesh-covered robots! Hey let’s just give machines sentience and get them to think for themselves! The latest: hey, let’s create a human brain out of electronics and then laugh at ourselves. Puffy fleshy meat cages!

I Heart Chaos:

If your job isn’t manual labor and you feel smug in the certainty that a robotic brain will never be able to match you in writing or drawing or thinking or whatever it is you do, wipe that smile off your face. IBM is 4.5% of the way towards completely making a human brain out of electronics and will be done by 2019.

The Blue Gene project was awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation in 2009, and just two years ago it needed 147,456 (then-Power-PC) processors to simulate a cat brain. It now has the cat simulation down to 24,576 processors, and has squeezed 4.5 percent of the human brain into the same 147,456 processors. And it’s still on pace to finish the job of turning the human mind into a componentially-replicable thing by 2019, which researchers think will take about 880,000 processors.

I’ll be in the back drinking. They’ll never convince a logical computer the beauty of alcoholism and self-destruction! We’ll always have that! Right?