[extropy-chat] DARPA Ends Brain Reverse Engineering Project

[Jay Dugger]

1051 Friday, 16 March 2007

On 3/16/07, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 08:16:28AM -0700, Jef Allbright wrote:
>
> >    cognitive architectures" based on the human brain. There is
> >    speculation that DARPA concluded phase 2 was simply to ambitious. For
>
> For that kind of a budget -- absolutely. The Manhattan project
> consumed a considerable fraction of the then-GNP. There's no way
> to expect not spending a few percent of today's GNP over the course
> of a decade or a couple and succeeding.
>

Or the project might have moved off-the-books. That would surprise me
very much, but stranger things have happened.

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