Can we build an artificial brain?
Films like Ex Machina, AI, and Transcendence revolve around artificial intelligence, and recreating the human brain in electronic form. The question is - can we do such a thing?
We look at the electrical circuits that are active in the brain, take a look at the electrical activity generated by a lone neuron in lab, look at networks of neurons, and finally examine the differences between biological and electronic circuits.
To film this video I was incredibly lucky to visit the neuroscience lab at UCL, and work with Dr Ali Jennings, who has just started an exciting new project to communicate research called Collab Lab - see / thecollab_lab .
If you'd like to learn more I highly recommend the wiki on action potentials and neurons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_...
Note: the +ve ions should be going the opposite way around the circuit to the -ve ions and electrons!
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I am Simon, a fourth year PhD candidate at the University of Exeter. I upload videos on bits of science which are relevant to what I do, and sometimes just because they're really cool.
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