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Krasnow Institute > Monday Seminars > Abstracts ATR's ARTIFICIAL BRAIN PROJECT Dr. Hugo de Garis This talk will describe the current status of the "CAM-Brain Project" conducted at the ATR Laboratories in Japan. The original aim of this project was to build an artificial brain with a billion artificial neurons, using evolved cellular automata (CA) based neural circuit modules. The CA based neural network modules grow and evolve at electronic speeds inside special FPGA based hardware called a CAM-Brain Machine (CBM), which can update CA cells at a rate of 150 Billion a second, and can evolve a neural net module in about 1 second. This speed should make brain building practical. By the first quarter of 1999, our Brain Builder Group (BBG) expects to see the completion of the design and fabrication of the CBM (which was started in January 1997). During 1999, the creation of up to a 32,000 module artificial brain architecture will be attempted, with maximum 40 million neurons, to control the robot kitten's many behaviors (which also need to be specified). The kitten robot is purely a means to show off the capacities of the artificial brain. A commercial software simulation package "Working Model 3D" by Knowledge Revolution Inc. is currently being used to simulate some of the behaviors of the robot kitten. Successfully evolved behavioral control modules will be downloaded into the RAM brain.
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