The Future of Humanity Institute, founded and run by IEET founder and chair Nick Bostrom, has just published a roadmap of the scientific research and technological innovations required to eventually completely model the human brain in software.

Whole brain emulation (WBE) is the possible future one-to-one modelling of the function of the human brain. It represents a formidable engineering and read more »
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Can machines think? That was the question posed by the great mathematician Alan Turing. Half a century later six computers are about to converse with human interrogators in an experiment that will attempt to prove that the answer is yes. read more »
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We can meet the hardware requirements for "strong" AI -- machine intelligence with the full range of human intelligence -- by 2020, says Ray Kurzweil read more »
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Spanish researchers at University of Granada have achieved a giant leap for robotkind by creating the first artificial cerebellum (the brain section read more »
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MIT professor Neil Gershenfeld and technology futurist Ray Kurzweil have long worked at the leading edges of physical science and computer science. T read more »
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Perhaps our questions about artificial intelligence are a bit like inquiring after the temperament and gait of a horseless carriage.
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Robots can be ironic. Even though they might not have emotions of their own, they can still detect and respond to humans’ emotions. A recent study ha read more »
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If human-equivalent AI is possible, this is a huge, huge deal. It would basically mean that you could turn inanimate matter into intelligence. Say th read more »
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