Transhumanism is a global movement to enhance human capacity by merging the body or parts of the body with technology. This is being done on a limited scale with prosthetics and robotic enhancements to the normal human condition. One of the goals that has yet to be met is to increase the human intellectual capacity through technological enhancement.
To this end, IBM, the company whose technology powered the Nazi genocide, has now developed software that mimics the thought patterns of the human brain. They have developed this software as part of the DARPA "SyNASPSE" program. SyNAPSE is an acronym for "Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive
Plastic Scalable Electronics". This project is the defense department's effort to build an electronic device that will mimic the power, size and thought processes of the human brain. This software, just publicly announce by IBM, is a large step toward the last goal. It will work with the hardware under development to create an artificial intelligence that will do many of the extraordinary activities of the human mind.
IBM Scientists Create a Freaky Brain-like Computer Architecture
Roboticists have long accepted that
nature’s millennia of R&D have already developed some of the
best designs for autonomous moving creatures. So, it stands to reason
that researchers creating the next generation of computer processors
would do well to look at nature's most powerful data cruncher: the
human brain.
To that end, IBM scientists have just
unveiled a “breakthrough software ecosystem” designed to work
with a silicon chip architecture inspired by the function, low power,
and compact volume of the human brain via a series of so-called
“neurosynaptic cores.”
“Architectures and programs are
closely intertwined and a new architecture necessitates a new
programming paradigm,” said Dr. Dharmendra S. Modha, Principal
Investigator and Senior Manager, IBM Research.
Since 2011, an IBM research project in
coordination with DARPA dubbed SyNAPSE (Systems of Neuromorphic
Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics) has been developing
nanometer-scale electronic synaptic components analogous to those in
the human brain. In conjunction with this synapse-like chip
architecture, the new programming model would facilitate an
electronic system where all parts are able to work together
simultaneously, as in the brain.
According to the company, the new
technology might enable intelligent sensor networks that mimic the
brain’s abilities for perception, action, and cognition. "While
complementing today’s computers, this will bring forth a
fundamentally new technological capability in terms of programming
and applying emerging learning systems,” said Modha.
