10 Important Differences Between Brains and Computers
April 2nd, 2007 by matt
10 Important Differences Between Brains and Computers
Chris Chatham has made a fascinating run down of main differences between brains and computers. These types of insights help clue us into the challenges scientists will be facing over the next century as they seek to create true AI.
Here are the first 3:
# 1: Brains are analogue; computers are digital
# 2: The brain uses content-addressable memory
# 3: The brain is a massively parallel machine; computers are modular and serial
Read Chris’s article
Also Check out this article where Scientists are modeling a rat brain.
A rat’s brain has millions of neurons, each with up to 10,000 connections to other neurons. This “simple” animal’s neural network is mind-bogglingly complex. Yet a Swiss laboratory has achieved remarkable success duplicating a vast region of a rat’s brain using a supercomputer.
