Can We Copy the Brain? – Towards Data Science – Medium

The IEEE Spectrum this month has a story on synthetic brains. In this article I will review the story and comment on the status of the quest: replicating the human brain in synthetic systems. This article is about neuroscience, neuromorphic, artificial neural networks, deep learning, computing hardware in biology and synthetic, and how all of these come together in the the human grand challenge of creating a synthetic brain at or above human level. Why We Should Copy the Brain: we should do this because we want to create intelligent machines that can do the work for us. In order to do our work, machine will have to live in our environment, have senses similar to our own, and be able to accomplish the same kind of tasks. It does not stop here: machine can do more and better than we can most tasks, simply as we do better than other life forms. And we would like them to do things we cannot do, and do better the things we can do.