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So far Lucy's brain contains only enough parts to allow her to learn to point at simple objects (especially bananas, which are obviously pretty important to an orangutan), but even this requires around 100,000 virtual neurons. Note that Lucy does have a brain, rather than being controlled by a program. It's true that her brain is virtual and therefore must be a computer program at some level, but the important thing is that her intelligence emerges from the interactions of thousands of (unintelligent) neurons and is not explicitly programmed in. The aim of our research is to try and establish a single neural architecture that is capable of doing all the things the brain's cerebral cortex can do - hearing, seeing, thinking, feeling and moving. Our own cerebral cortex is essentially similar in structure right across its surface, despite the huge variety of tasks that different regions are involved in. This proves that there must be a single answer - a particular neural structure that is capable of self-organising into what appears on the surface to be many different kinds of machine. Finding this clever neural trick is what the Lucy project is all about. Click on the boxes below for more detail on the different components that exist so far.
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