Denise Herznig and her colleagues at the Wild Dolphin Project are collaborating with artificialintelligence researchers at Georgia Tech are embarking on an extraordinarily ambitious project.
Markram and IBM both emphasize that the project would not create artificialintelligence but a way to study how neurons in the brain interact with one another.
The Cambridge project is looking at the threats that could emerge from progress in ArtificialIntelligence (AI), developments in biotech and artificial life including nanotechnology.
In a pilot project, Columbia researchers are gathering data on FedEx EVs to write artificialintelligence programs to manage where and when the trucks plug in.
Dr James Marshall, a computer scientist at the University of Sheffield co-ordinating the project, said simulating a brain was one of the "major challenges" of artificialintelligence.