Can We Create An Artificial Brain?
Dr. Miguel Nicolelis is not the kind of person you’d expect to say that something is impossible. And he connected the minds of monkeys, allowing them to accomplish tasks together -- a technology he says could eventually be used to connect human minds into a "brain net." Yet in his latest book, The Relativistic Brain: How it works and why it cannot be simulated by a Turing machine, the director of neuroengineering at Duke University says that it’s impossible to emulate a human brain in a computer and that efforts to do so are dangerously misguided. Both companies use "deep learning," a form of artificial intelligence meant to closely mimic the human brain, as do a host of other tech companies, including Twitter, Microsoft and Baidu. The common mistake that computer scientists and some bioengineers commit is that they think the brain was built by some sort of blueprint -- as if there’s a designer who drew up this map.
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