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Wintermute · 3445 days ago · link · · parent · post: A nematode worm's brain has been mapped, simulated in software & put into a lego robot which now *acts like a worm*
Anyone know how this compares to IBM's work? This is far outside of my area of expertise, but it seems like IBM has already gone far beyond this in terms of raw simulation power.
iammyownrushmore · 3445 days ago · link ·
this experiment isn't about computational power, this is a emulation of a natural connectome. They're different in application. IBM is running a bunch of artificial neurons at the size of a cat or mouse brain, but they do not have the connective features particular to an entire connectome. They took existing data about how exactly each of the neurons physically and electrochemically interact, imported that into an artificial neural network, and hit "run". Out came a synthetic version of a nematode.