Artificial Synapses for Artificial Brains

Creating an artificial intelligence similar to the structure of the human brain carries a range of benefits that drastically outweigh any potential drawbacks. Apart from copying a human's ability to think creatively, learn rapidly from inconsistent data, and utilise the evolutionary benefits that many traditional artificial intelligences lack, artificial copies of human brains will also allow us to study brain diseases and disorders without the use of an actual, organic patient. It is most useful for tasks which require visual and auditory signals to complete fully and safely, such as driving a car or holding a realistic face-to-face conversation. A synthetic brain which uses synchronised'spikes' of electricity in a neural network, like an organic one, will be far more able to carry out these tasks than a standard computer. However, this also means that it will suffer the same drawbacks as an organic brain, such as fading memories and a lesser ability to read and utilise data in a logical instead of hierarchal fashion.