IBM scientists simulate cat's brain
source: http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20091118/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_ibm_brain_mapping?1
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The scientists had previously simulated 40 percent of a mouse's brain in 2006, a rat's full brain in 2007, and 1 percent of a human's cerebral cortex this year, using progressively bigger supercomputers.
The latest feat, being presented at a supercomputing conference in Portland, Ore., doesn't mean the computer thinks like a cat, or that it is the progenitor of a race of robo-cats.
The simulation, which runs 100 times slower than an actual cat's brain, is more about watching how thoughts are formed in the brain and how the roughly 1 billion neurons and 10 trillion synapses in a cat's brain work together.
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snaganalf
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Hey folks, they are not doing anything with live cats. They are simply simulating a cats brain on a computer. No torture going on here unless the poor computer is being tortured.
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snaganalf
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desertcat
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A dog thinks: Hey, these people I live with feed me, love me, provide me with a nice warm, dry house, pet me, and take good care of me... They must be Gods! A cat thinks: Hey, these people I live with feed me, love me, provide me with a nice warm, dry house, pet me, and take good care of me... I must be a God!
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desertcat
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Simon_Ruymaekers
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here is another article about it:
http://www.humacon.org/2009/11/19/hals-bells-ibm-makes-thinking-computer-breakth... - 2 years ago
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Simon_Ruymaekers
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Lurkistan
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Its only a mater of time before a computer is as powerful as a human brain, and then as powerful as all the human brains ever in existence.
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Lurkistan
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click123
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Comparisons like this provide us with profound evidence that the marvelous brain of both mice and men could only have come from a supremely intelligent Creator.
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click123
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lu7cky
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great a computer that can look at me smugly while licking it's own ass
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lu7cky
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eta
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dumb
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eta
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Lurkistan
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eta:
Don't be so hard on yourself :(
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Lurkistan
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TheDesertEagle
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call me when they copy Garfield brain... or Liono's from thunder cats... sweet.
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TheDesertEagle
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jaystyx
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How long till IBM makes a robot kitty?
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jaystyx
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CalgarC
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i wonder how long it takes to simulate Sarah Palin's brain...
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CalgarC
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thewarnerla
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Where's PETA on this one? Oh wait, they are just money hungry still from the likes of Michael Vick. To bad it wasn't a rich cat.
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thewarnerla
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calm_incense
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thewarnerla:
You're not seriously trying to defend Michael Vick, are you?
Secondly, what the fuck does this have to do with animal rights?
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calm_incense
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thewarnerla:
probably because your hooking a cat up to one of the largest computer in the world. that has to be some weird torture if you think that having the animals fight each other is horrible--at least they get to have self defense in the life or death battle.
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thewarnerla
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calm_incense
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thewarnerla:
"probably because your hooking a cat up to one of the largest computer in the world. that has to be some weird torture if you think that having the animals fight each other is horrible--at least they get to have self defense in the life or death battle."
Yes, forcing dogs to violently attack each other and subsequently abusing and executing under-performing dogs is so NOT torture, but hooking up a cat to a computer *is* torture. Kind of like when I got an MRI. OMG TORTURE! I would have SO much preferred to have been FORCED TO FIGHT SOME STRANGER TO THE DEATH. Kind of like how the gladiator ceremonies in ancient Rome were such great spectacles of humanitarianism!
Not to mention, the article didn't even mention anything about hooking a cat up to anything.
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calm_incense
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desertcat
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thewarnerla:
Peta only involves itself in helping the animals that will make headlines. Most people think its cute, its not cute. Did anyone ask the cat if it wants electrodes implanted in its brain. Anyone who has ever lived with a cat knows that the cat does not give a shit if you know why they do what the do or what they are thinking, just open the tuna and where are my toys.
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desertcat
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Xion
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Cheezeburger?
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Nettle
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Yeah, I thought we had already established what goes on in the head of the lolcat...
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Nettle
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snaganalf
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The cat is probably thinking "Damn, is that my asshole?"
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snaganalf
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macdontcare
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What's going on in my cat's brain when it hacks up a hair ball on the couch? Inquiring minds want to know!
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ochreRobot
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the singularity is getting closer.. i am so stoked
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Lurkistan
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ochreRobot:
Right on schedule!
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Lurkistan
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Hurtsville
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Ok, now I am officially freaked out. This is going to lead to A.I. , and then the Supercomputers will become self-aware, and then we are all screwed.
I have to think more on this, ill send more commentary later.
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Hurtsville
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isnamthere
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Computer nawt gettin at mi bwain
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isnamthere
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WhiteNoise
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To boldly go...
Now on with humans :)
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lancelot873
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1% of the human brain???? so humans still win over computers?
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KSirys
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As long as they are not hurting the cat, i'm all for it!
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KSirys:
It's a simulation, on a computer.
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Lurkistan
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kennywinker
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Same day as CatPaint comes out! Coincidence, I think not!
http://catpaint.info/2009/11/all-the-kittehs-get-kisses/ - 2 years ago
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kennywinker
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calm_incense
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This holds revolutionary implications for the future of LOLcats.
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jac1992
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Very cool, but i think it would probably be easier and cheaper to just get a real cat
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jac1992
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esserius
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Sweet Christmas.
We are the Borg.
You will be assimilated.
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esserius
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CarlosIsDown
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Best scientific research EVER!
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CarlosIsDown:
Nah, call me when they copy Garfield's brain... or Liono's from thunder cats... sweet.
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desertcat
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CarlosIsDown:
Mark Twain once said: Mix cat with man, improve the man. Mix man with cat diminish the cat.
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desertcat
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Progresshiv
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Wouldn't it be cheaper to buy a cat?
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Progresshiv
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SleepDirt
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Progresshiv:
Home-made is always so much more fun, though.
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jeffissleeping
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purr...i'm thinking that if IBM can electronically stimulate a house feline's cerebral cortex, (and actually let that slip into the public realm) that much more highly advanced modes of controlling a cat are already underway....
or, it's just fuckin' cool... :)
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jeffissleeping
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SleepDirt
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Meow...
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SleepDirt
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jeffissleeping
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SleepDirt:
oh....
nice picture, btw :) - 2 years ago
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jeffissleeping
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SleepDirt
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SleepDirt:
Thanks. This cat looks just like my cat Noah, whom I had decades ago. He always looked lost in thought just like the meower in the photo.
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