Human Brain Project: EU's shocking €1BILLION plan to grow SILICON BRAINS in a lab
A EUROPEAN UNION (EU) funded project is pioneering cutting-edge research into the human brain and is inspiring artificial intelligence breakthroughs, its scientific director has exclusively revealed.
The Human Brain Project (HBP) is the EU’s £899 (€1billion) flagship science initiative working on developing human-machine hybrids. The ambitious enterprise’s primary aim is to simulate the human brain using computers, improving science and technology on the way. Professor Katrin Amunts, HBP's scientific director, believes tangible results are starting to arrive, halfway through the Human Brain Project’s ten-year tenure.
She said: “We are trying to emulate the capabilities of the brain, we are trying to understand the brain’s principles and the organisational rules behind cognitive function."
We are trying to emulate the capabilities of the brain
Professor Katrin Amunts
“What we are trying to do at HBP is try and understand how we can use our knowledge about brain organisation and transfer it, for instance, to new computing devices called neuromorphic devices."
The Human Brain Project is developing two major neuromorphic machines; Manchester University's SpiNNaker and the University of Heidelberg’s BrainscaleS.