[MURG] mind uploading x prize?

[Yan King Yin]

>Eric wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> We could also go for a simpler goal: uploading and simulating C.
> Elegans. This goal is reachable even with today's technology, but it
> may not be big enough to have an effect. The technology actually
> needed to dismantle and scan a brain (or nondestructively scan it, if
> you're into that) wouldn't be needed here. This goal would only
> require the ability to simulate an organism, not to actually upload
> it. Behavioral criteria as described above would be less decisive here
> as the organism is almost too simple to determine if the upload
> actually reproduces the specific worm that was uploaded.
> Also, this goal has already been attempted by at least two groups
> (MURG and Kitano, Hamahashi, and Luke (1998)
> (http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/seanl/papers/pce-alife.pdf)) so it isn't
> as novel and big as I'd like to see an X Prize be.
> 
> Just further thoughts.

I think $10M is insufficient for a rat upload, even assuming we
already have a dataset (has the rat brain been scanned recently?).
We won't be able to buy enough computing power for the simulation,
unless you're going to run it extremely slow.

Still I think the prize is a good idea. I'm currently working on
a machine vision project based on artificial neural nets, which
may be applicable to cell recognition.

YKY
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