How Copying the Human Brain Could Make AI Smarter

Artificial intelligence that mimics the human brain could result in smarter, more efficient computers, experts say. Nara Logics' new AI engine uses recent discoveries in neuroscience to replicate brain structure and function. The research is part of a decades-long quest to make computers that can "think" as well as or better than humans. Simulating brain function is one promising approach. "There are obvious benefits to copying what seems to work in biology and implementing them in machines to aid automated decision making in a broad spectrum of daily activities," Stephen T.C. Wong, a computer science professor at Houston Methodist Research Institute, said in an email interview. The uses for humanlike AI could range "from playing chess, recognizing faces, and trading stocks to making a medical diagnosis, driving autonomous vehicles, and engaging business negotiations or even legal litigation," he added.