Inteligencia Artificial
Nosotros los programadores podemos apreciar que ultimamente ha explotado el numero de proyectos relacionados con la inteligencia artificial y el aprendizaje:
– http://opennlp.apache.org/
– http://lucene.apache.org/openrelevance/
– http://mahout.apache.org/
– http://tika.apache.org/
– http://www.heatonresearch.com/encog
Y muchisimos mas…
Ha llegado la tecnologia al punto en el cual ya se puede dar un uso practico a la inteligencia artificial? El big data ya permite procesar suficiente cantidad de datos para que los algoritmos sean eficaces?
Que ocurrira cuando tengamos ordenadores cuanticos?
Intentando crear un cerebro artificial… Parece que esta complicado!
Europe’s Human Brain Project, the team behind the program was trying to figure out how to incentivize researchers to share data. Now they face a more fundamental problem: getting researchers to take part in any capacity. At the time of writing, 280 scientists have signed an open letter threatening to boycott the project.
The letter lays bare tensions that have existed since the early days of the initiative. Some of the complaints relate to how the project is being managed–notably the way in which one subproject was dropped–but the scientists who signed the letter have more fundamental concerns about exactly what Europe is trying to achieve with its €1 billion ($1.4 billion) budget. The headline objective is to create a computer simulation of the human brain, a goal University College London’s computational neuroscience director Peter Dayan called "radically premature" in an interview with The Guardian.
With some scientists thinking the goal is ambitious at best, they have looked to subprojects to ensure that the project yields tangible benefits even if it falls short of its big objective. But the open letter criticizes the project for being too narrow from the start and becoming more so in a recent refocusing. The team behind the project argues that it will deliver a range of benefits, particularly by giving neuroscientists the tools to manage and analyze the ever-larger data sets being generated by researchers.
Henry Markram, head of the Human Brain Project
"The rationale of the Human Brain Project is a plan for data: what do we do with all this data? This is a very exciting [information computer technology] project that will bring completely new tools and capabilities to all of neuroscience. It is not a general neuroscience funding source for more of the same research," Henry Markram, head of the Human Brain Project, said. In calling the initiative an ICT project, Markram hit upon one of the problems some people have with the project."There is a danger that Europe thinks it is investing in a big neuroscience project here, but it’s not. It’s an IT project. They need to widen the scope and take advantage of the expertise we have in neuroscience," Geneva University’s Alexandre Pouget said.
While researchers in Europe were drafting a letter objecting to aspects of the Human Brain Project (HBP), a company across the Atlantic was showcasing the fruits of 9 years of work into mimicking neurology. And while the company, Numenta, has made progress in creating apps that reproduce the brain, it thinks a fully functioning model is impossible without rethinking the underlying hardware.
Numenta set up shop in 2005 with the objective of replicating the processing power of the brain and has just introduced its first product, VentureBeat reports. Numenta began by building biological and computer science models of parts of the brain, leading to the creation of an algorithm that replicates a small, 1,000- to 5,000-nerve-cell piece of the cortex. This algorithm underpins its first product, a tool for detecting unusual patterns in IT systems.