BY:  JIM FLINK

ANCHOR:  LAUREN GORES

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This is your brain .
And this -- is your brain -- on a chip.
IBM’s about to solder the last synapses of a cyber-spectacle.
A computer -- that can sense, interact, perceive and recognize -- just like -- your noggin’.
Venture Beat has the twist on your trad tech-box.

“This new computing unit ... has ‘neurons,’ or digital processors that compute information. It has “synapses” which are the foundation of learning and memory. And it has ‘axons,’ or data pathways that connect the tissue of the computer.  In (modern computers), memory and processor are separated ... with the human brain, the memory is located with the processor (at least, that’s how it appears, based on our current understanding of what is admittedly a still-mysterious three pounds of meat in our heads).”

Now take a look at a time-lapsed picture of the so-called brain wall -- from Slashgear -- as we rattle off some mindless facts.
The name -- cognitive computing project.
The goal -- mimic parallel processing.
The cost -- $41 mil.
Techeye has the specs.

“The so-called neurosynaptic chips use algorithms and silicon circuitry to produce the equivalent of spiking neurons and synapses in biological systems and has already made two chips that are being tested right now.”

Ok -- so -- thinking, sensing computers.
Does that -- weird anybody else out?
Gizmodo.. says, uhhhhhhh-huh!

“Yes people, this could be the day we all look back upon with sheer horror, as The Robots chase us from our houses and onto the streets.”

CNET says -- before you go freakin’ out -- there’s a ton of real-world potential inside those chips.

“...they will likely tackle some of the thorniest problems in computing...programs that could analyze financial markets ... monitor global water supplies and track and report ... wave height, ocean tides, water temperature, and even issue tsunami warnings; and those that could allow a supermarket worker to instantly sense when produce has gone bad.”

So -- no more rotten tomatoes.  Awesome.
Please tell me -- there’s more to it than that.
GigaOm talks with the mind behind the brainiac bitmap.

“Lets be clear, this is not a mammalian brain or anything like that -- it’s a mathematical model.”
“Any simulation, in some senses is always a cartoon of the reality because the reality is very complex”
“We hope that our simulation can give, in a very tasteful fashion, the essence how the brain give rise to the mind.”

Wanna see the full interview.
Warning -- it’s intense.
We have the link --  courtesy GigaOm -- in our transcript section.
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Transcript by Newsy.