The Blue Brain
Above is an image of 2000 IBM microchips at work. This isn't your standard 2000core computer though. Each microchip is programmed to act like a neuron, a brain cell. And on top of it the whole shebang is structured like the neocortal column. Don't ask me what kind of implications its architecture has, but apparently it's a very complex and biologically accurate structure. Plans to upscale this thing include self-consciousness and ghosts in machines. Anyone smell robot's taking over the human race?
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That is a pretty sweet pic! With that kind of technology I can definently see robot's taking over the human race in the future but not anytime soon. I would expect something like this to occur AT LEAST a couple hundred years down the road. Let me say that I am just glad that it hopefully wont happen during my lifetime because that could get pretty awkward and creepy.
Interesting find. While it seems there are quite a few skeptics, there's always the chance of some huge, unexpected breakthrough that could revolutionize computing as we know it, and I think the chance is worth continuing with the research. I just read an article about some other significant progress we're making with the human mind:
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/03/mri_vision#