Boulder, Colorado, resident and former Soviet electrical engineer Mikhail Korkin is helping build the first artificial brain. While this may sound like science fiction, Korkin's prototype, called the CAM-Brain Machine, is constructed from neural network-based evolvable hardware that spins code fast enough to support brain-building. The tool will allow computer scientists to evolve neural net modules that can perform brainlike functions in seconds.
The device's first application � spearheaded by Korkin's buddy Hugo de Garis at Japan's Human Information Processing Research Lab � will be the million-neuron thinker (compared to the human brain's trillion neurons) of a genuinely intelligent robotic kitten, to be unveiled by 2000. Says an understated de Garis, "Mikhail's machine will revolutionize the field of neural networks."
- Roderick Simpson
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