Hunting for a Brainy Computer

Hunting for a Brainy Computer

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Want a really intelligent digital assistant?

Well, it certainly won’t be ready for this holiday season, but that is the long-range goal of a $4.9 million grant from the government’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to five universities and I.B.M. Research.

The funds are for the first phase of an ambitious research venture in cognitive computing, an emerging field that lies at the outer edge of artificial intelligence.

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What IBM is trying to develop is Strong Artificial Intelligence as against weak AI. There is a concept of neural networks in AI. Strong AI can feel, have emotions and states of mind.

The neural networks can be mimicked to think like a human brain and process information at the speed of thought in human brain.

The only drawback is that these intelligent machines cannot reproduce and are dependant on electricity generated by humans for their existence.

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