Guest Editorial: Special issue on artificial brains

摘要

Now, at the start of the 21st century, there are strong reasons to believe the time has finally come for the creation of powerful artificial general intelligences, including "artificial brains" that incorporate key aspects of human brain structure and dynamics within digital computer programs. In the last decades, computer hardware has advanced tremendously, due to Moore's Law and associated phenomena, which bring the computing power of available hardware closer and closer to that of the human brain. Our knowledge of neuroscience and cognitive science has also increased dramatically, due largely to advances in brain measurement instrumentation (which have been driven by advances in computer technology, applied physics and other areas). Additionally, the arsenal of AI and neurosimulation algorithms at our disposal has improved steadily in both strength and diversity. The purpose of this special issue is to review some of the recent work that has been done, leveraging these technological advances toward the design and creation of artificial brains.