Intelligent artificial brain made
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have created a tiny artificial brain that can mimic a real human brain’s activities.
The microbrain is derived from rat brain cells and about 40,000 to 60,000 neurons that give it a short-term memory and make it capable of solving math problems and paying cell phone bills.
According to Weekly World News, customers will attach the microbrain to their heads with a strap -- a connector that goes in the ear.
Researchers developed the project by following the way our brains transmit electrical signals and store data so efficiently.
Henry C. Zeringue and his colleagues attached a layer of proteins to a silicon disk and added brain cells from embryonic rats that attached themselves to the proteins and grew to connect with one another in the ring.
Studies showed that when the neurons were stimulated with electricity, the pulse would circulate the microbrain for a full 12 hours.
As the result is 1,000 times longer than what the researchers anticipated it would circulate, the research developer Dr. John Hillstrom concluded that he brain “will make everyone a genius.”
The microbrain will be distributed by Microsoft in November 2011.
Source: presstv.ir
