This paper reports on progress made in the first 3 years of.ATR's 'CAM-Brain'Project, which aims to use 'evolutionary e.gi...,i.gi' techniques to build/grow/evolve a RAM-and-cellular-automata based...This paper reports on progress made in the first 3 years of.ATR's 'CAM-Brain'Project, which aims to use 'evolutionary e.gi...,i.gi' techniques to build/grow/evolve a RAM-and-cellular-automata based artificial brain consisting of thousands of interconnected neural network modules inside special hardware such as MITs Cellular Automata Machine 'CAM-8,i, or NTT's Content Addressable Memory System 'CAM-System'. The states of a billion (later a trillion) 3D cellular automata cells, and edlions of cellular automata rules which govern their state changes, can be stored relatively cheaply in giga(tera)bytes of RAM. After 3 years work, the CA rules are almost ready. MITt,,'CAM-8' (essentially a serial device) can update 200,000,000 CA cells a second. It is possible that NTT's 'CAM-System' (essentially a massively parallel device) may be able to update a trillion CA cells a second. Hence all the ingredients will soon be ready to create a revolutionary new technology which will allow thousands of evolved neural network modules to be assembled into artificial brains. This in turn will probably create not only a new research field, but hopefully a whole new industry,namely 'brain building'. Building artificial brains with a billion neurons is the aim of ATR's 8 year i,CAM-B,ai.,' research project, ending in 2001.展开更多
文摘This paper reports on progress made in the first 3 years of.ATR's 'CAM-Brain'Project, which aims to use 'evolutionary e.gi...,i.gi' techniques to build/grow/evolve a RAM-and-cellular-automata based artificial brain consisting of thousands of interconnected neural network modules inside special hardware such as MITs Cellular Automata Machine 'CAM-8,i, or NTT's Content Addressable Memory System 'CAM-System'. The states of a billion (later a trillion) 3D cellular automata cells, and edlions of cellular automata rules which govern their state changes, can be stored relatively cheaply in giga(tera)bytes of RAM. After 3 years work, the CA rules are almost ready. MITt,,'CAM-8' (essentially a serial device) can update 200,000,000 CA cells a second. It is possible that NTT's 'CAM-System' (essentially a massively parallel device) may be able to update a trillion CA cells a second. Hence all the ingredients will soon be ready to create a revolutionary new technology which will allow thousands of evolved neural network modules to be assembled into artificial brains. This in turn will probably create not only a new research field, but hopefully a whole new industry,namely 'brain building'. Building artificial brains with a billion neurons is the aim of ATR's 8 year i,CAM-B,ai.,' research project, ending in 2001.
