The U.S. Government Is Betting $28 Million That We Can Replicate The Brain

A partial digital reconstruction of the brain previously made by Harvard. We've talked a lot about making a computer that works like the mammalian brain. The U.S. government is now betting $28 million dollars that all these projects are wrong. A series of three grants snagged by Harvard University from Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) last week has funded a "moonshot" project to throw out all of the previous attempts at understanding the brain and start fresh. But while DARPA focuses on military projects, IARPA focuses on intelligence agency research.)