It wants to be the brain in your washing machine, your microwave and your car, not to mention the giant server farms dotted around the planet that will power cloud computing as more of our day-to-day work gets stored online.
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Elevators used to require an operator with a brain to operate the machine.
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This young Australian entrepreneur is building the next human-machine interface, a headset that takes orders directly from the brain.
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Throughout the 75-minute test participants were shown responses given by four other subjects, while the MRI machine snapped 1, 000 brain images.
Dr Denk (or, rather, his graduate students) are thus able to load the machine with a chunk of plasticised brain and a slicer.
When a ball is pitched to the robot, an accelerometer at the back of a batting cage records information about the flight of the ball, including its speed, and this data is relayed back to a machine that holds the GPU-powered brain.
To study the neurology of tickling, Dr Blakemore and her team stuck volunteers into a magnetic-resonance-imaging machine (which monitors oxygen flow to the brain, and thus indicates the amount of activity in that organ's various parts).
Scary yes but inevitable because mechanical technology, muscle power, has barely budged while machine brain power has rocketed ahead, leaving the integration of the two grossly underexploited.
He explained that he pursued his work more to learn how the human brain works than to learn about how to build a more sophisticated machine.
Later, Roach is shown at the hospital, fastened to his back, sliding into a machine for a brain scan.
More likely than hooking your brain to a machine, though, in my view would be the development of a drug that allows for lucid dreaming like in the film Inception.
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Since the days of Alan Turing, the promise of a digital computer has been that of a universal machine, one that can be a word processor one minute and a robot brain the next.
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Jeff Hawkins, Numenta co-founder, and Michael Chui, a principal at the McKinsey Global Institute will discuss on Wednesday evening an alternative approach to big data, using brain-inspired machine learning technology and a cloud-based service called Grok that recognizes complex patterns from data streams and generates actionable predictions in real time.
But Saxe's lab, using a machine called a transcranial magnetic stimulator, which applies an electromagnetic pulse to a targeted point in the brain, can temporarily disable the function in the TPJ and change what people think about someone else's actions.
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