IBM's "Brain" Guy: Dharmendra Modha

This video is mind blowing. Well, for Dharmendra S. Modha, manager of cognitive computing at the IBM Almaden Research Center, his job is mind developing. Er, coming up with a computing brain that mimics our own. This is a HUGE challenge and he talks about all the people and organizations that IBM is working with to make this happen.

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[meeldras]

great.

cf quantum computing for what comes next1

well done ibm

[Serpico261]

whats ur problem? the interviewer is very natural and he asks good questions in my opinion...i mean, u could ask thousands of questions

what should we expect, a stereotype passive guy that reads questions from a paper?

Great job and many thanks

[lesmiralha]

@adickel9 The supposed paradox you describe is not a scientific fact. At best, it is a philosophical conjecture.

[andenandenia]

I think intelligence can prove useful in several areas!

:)

[newdigits]

its simply great



[adickel9]

This won't happen, fundamentally we don't have the ability to fully understand our brains, with only our brains to understand them with. Its a paradox, an impossibility due to the fundamental nature of living things, good luck IBM but its a waste of money.

[gespilk]

@nodoubtyamean

A rat "brain" simulation on a super computer...It means they got is completely wrong.

I say,All visible matter in the Universe is only about 5% and we happen to be in one of those spots in the Universe where there is more of it but not that much. It is so because complexity happens in the "inbetweens" where there is not too much of one thing/energy/power or another thing and there are cycles of a sort but not too violent/extreme or too weak/settled.

THAT IS WHAT WE NEED TO MODEL.

[nodoubtyamean]

@nodoubtyamean powerful computing device we know of, is a step in the right direction.

[nodoubtyamean]

@gespilk taking things out of context is fun isn't it? If you had watched any of the other videos then you would have seen that they described it in a very similar way as you. no the brain is not a bird but a bird has 75% of the same DNA as a human and has very similar brain function, besides he was using birds to equate the computing power to something tangible. also we have been stuck in von nueman style cpu's for far too long and any new architecture, especially one modeled after the most

[cerberusdest]

"Two extremes of the human intellect"

[adityadd]

dharmendra modha.....IIT Bombay \m/

[aproob]

What is wrong with the interviewer? His dumb comments have completely spoiled a good opportunity to learn about the project from an IBM engineer. Does this guy have any idea that it is possible to zoom out rather than move it up and down all the time. And what is up with all the shaking of the camera?