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Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics" also known as SyNAPSE is the US military's attempt at creating an artificial intelligence, presumably to take over the function of human operators for
unmanned land/aerial vehicles and to possibly be used to pilot future bombs (smart bombs on steroids). There is a website about a
DARPA SyNAPSE Bidders Workshop that has already taken place this past week (March 4, 2008). Unfortunately, they really don't have that much specific information on this website, however they do have the titles of the presentations at the workshop. Some of these titles sound fairly interesting in a mad scientist sort of way. Here are just a few of them: 1) Scalable Hardware Models of the Hippocampal System Based on Nonlinearities of its Neurons/Circuits, 2) Neuromorphic Robots: A Tool for Designing and Testing Real-World Neuromorphic Systems, 3) Developing Neurobiological Architectures Using Mother Nature's Principles, 4) Towards Brain-Like Agents: Training Large-Scale Neuromorphic Systems in Competitive Games, 5) Building Nanoelectronic Neuromorphic Network in Three Dimensions, 6) Neurogrid: Emulating a million neurons in the cortex. You can see the rest of the presentation titles if you go to
the website and click on the "Poster Session" in the left hand corner.
It seems that DARPA is fairly serious about doing this. It sounds like they are basically going to try to create an artificial intelligence by building a chip that mimics the functioning of the brain. They would then test this artificial brain in a virtual reality training ground. This would allow them to see how the artificial intelligence would perform on a virtual battlefield before actually using it in the real world. If this is successful, then it could potentially take a lot of the control of military hardware out of human hands. Almost any military vehicle or plane currently driven by a human operator might eventually be replaced by a smarter artificial brain. Even a gun could be given an artificial brain to make it a better functioning weapon. I'm not sure if this is a good thing or not at this point. There are a number of other potential applications of this technology outside of the battlefield as well. Finally, there is a
SyNAPSE teaming website where you can register if you think your skills/knowledge can add anything to this project.
"Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics" also known as SyNAPSE is the US military's attempt at creating an artificial intelligence, presumably to take over the function of human operators for unmanned land/aerial vehicles and to possibly be used to pilot future bombs (smart bombs on steroids). There is a website about a DARPA SyNAPSE Bidders Workshop that has already taken place this past week (March 4, 2008). Unfortunately, they really don't have that much specific information on this website, however they do have the titles of the presentations at the workshop. Some of these titles sound fairly interesting in a mad scientist sort of way. Here are just a few of them: 1) Scalable Hardware Models of the Hippocampal System Based on Nonlinearities of its Neurons/Circuits, 2) Neuromorphic Robots: A Tool for Designing and Testing Real-World Neuromorphic Systems, 3) Developing Neurobiological Architectures Using Mother Nature's Principles, 4) Towards Brain-Like Agents: Training Large-Scale Neuromorphic Systems in Competitive Games, 5) Building Nanoelectronic Neuromorphic Network in Three Dimensions, 6) Neurogrid: Emulating a million neurons in the cortex. You can see the rest of the presentation titles if you go to the website and click on the "Poster Session" in the left hand corner.
It seems that DARPA is fairly serious about doing this. It sounds like they are basically going to try to create an artificial intelligence by building a chip that mimics the functioning of the brain. They would then test this artificial brain in a virtual reality training ground. This would allow them to see how the artificial intelligence would perform on a virtual battlefield before actually using it in the real world. If this is successful, then it could potentially take a lot of the control of military hardware out of human hands. Almost any military vehicle or plane currently driven by a human operator might eventually be replaced by a smarter artificial brain. Even a gun could be given an artificial brain to make it a better functioning weapon. I'm not sure if this is a good thing or not at this point. There are a number of other potential applications of this technology outside of the battlefield as well. Finally, there is a SyNAPSE teaming website where you can register if you think your skills/knowledge can add anything to this project.
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