Sunday 7 April 2013

Vvek's View on Artificial Intelligence

                                  After a long period of exploring, I have concluded and need verification for what I have concluded. People like me, who are interested in exploring mind freaking facts about next generation computers, can follow this way of conclusion.

                                  There is lots and lots of Institutions, Universities, Research Laboratories are racing to achieving artificial intelligence, digitallization of human brain, mind uploading, whatever the name would be.... Simply we can say, Evolution of Human by digitalization. Lets see the Summary of this Blog.



Creating New


                               Creating a new whole brain is not such an easy process like launching a satellite in its orbit or like bombarding two nuclei and fuse to form a heavier nuclei in a fusion reactor. It will be a greatest of all achievement like, John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert invented the first digital computer as a giant room sized machine on Feb. 14, 1946. As like the computer which that giant machine is shrined and made them more efficient, the core of a brain i.e. the super Processor! Up to  is being developed for a room sized racks of processors!! Simply we say Super Computers! Let us see, what are the possible ways to create such a processing device like the basic work of a Human Brain..


Neural network


                               Our brain is made of approximately 100 billion nerve cells, called neurons. Neurons have the amazing ability to gather and transmit electrochemical signals -- think of them like the gates and wires in a computer.

                               Neurons share the same characteristics and have the same makeup as other cells, but the electrochemical aspect lets them transmit signals over long distances (up to several feet or a few meters) and send messages to each other.

                        Like wise,  Neurogrid Super computer was deviced that trades the extreme precision of digital transistors for the brain's chaos of many neurons firing, with misfires 30 percent to 90 percent of the time. Yet the brain works with this messy system by relying on crowds of neurons to shout over the noise of misfires and competing signals.

                               That willingness to give up precision for chaos could lead to a new era of creative computing that simulates the unpredictable patterns of brain activity. It could also represent a far more energy-efficient era -- the Neurogrid fits in a briefcase and runs on what amounts to a few D batteries, or less than a watt. Rather than transistors, it uses capacitors that get the same voltage of neurons.


High Speed Processor



                              High speed processors are only used in Super Computers which have limited and peculiar applications such as Weather forecasting, Aerodynamic research, Probabilistic analysis, Radiation shielding modeling, Brute force code breaking, 3D nuclear test simulations as a substitute for legal conduct Nuclear Proliferation Treaty, and Molecular Dynamics Simulation.

                              Using 144 terabytes of RAM, scientists simulate a cat's cerebral cortex based on 1 billion neurons and 10 trillion synapses, IBM's Blue Gene Supercomputer Models a Cat's Entire Brain! The simulated cat brain still runs about 100 times slower than the real thing. But PhysOrg reports that a new algorithm called BlueMatter allows IBM researchers to diagram the connections among cortical and sub-cortical places within the human brain. The team then built the cat cortex simulation consisting of 1 billion brain cells and 10 trillion learning synapses, the communication connections among neurons. A separate team of Swiss researchers also used an IBM supercomputer for their Blue Brain project, where a digital rat brain's neurons began creating self-organizing neurological patterns. That research group hopes to simulate a human brain within 10 years.


Brain Simulating


                              Like before I said, Super computers consists of High speed processor is capable of process like brain atleast like a mouse's brain and nearer to a cat's brain can be used to simulate brain function and can create a model cat or atleast a mouse. But the problem is, these processors are made in huge sizes and these supercomputers are made as large number of racks and shelves! It should be first attain our brain's processing speed and it should be attain a compact size.


Program it from A to Z



                         

              If we can achieve a high speed processor, simulating the human's character is simple and it can be easily transferred into a large memory, like in Enthiran movie, the programs are named as "neural schema".








Developing the Old

                              Just imagine, there are lot of devices and machines discovered that work under our control like voice recognition devices, smart phones and other smart gadgets, artificial body parts like leg, Bionic-arm, etc.. If we can make a connection between our brain and electronic and electrical devices, why can't a Paralysed (disambiguation) person walk with a help of brain controlled Robotic-suite (suite like Iron man)??

Thought controlled Computers


                              Till now there are lot of commercial thought controlled computers are being used world wide. But, they are used only for entertaining purposes. 

Brain Controlled Devices


                        Only few people use such a technology like THIS  for some research purpose! and like THIS for some useful purpose.

Mind Uploading


                               By the help of BCI(Brain-Computer Interface), we can virtualize not only the monkeys environment, we can also virtualize and store the trace of some of our commands into a computer... Also See, BCI.