Comment Other place to look: (Score 1) 34
If this is the kind of thing that gets your interest, try checking out the Institute For Neuroinformatics . In addition to building all of these sorts of vision chips, they also do work with real brain stuff, like anatomy and the like.
I did programming for them last fall, so I got to know some of the people doing the chip work. Rather than doing it for the reasons presented above (ie, weapons/AI) a lot of this is done in the mindset of pure research. These chips also give us a method to test some of the ideas we have about how brains work. After all, if you can build one, you can understand one.
In terms of making things like artificial eyes, we would first need to be able to track all of the neurons running from the eye to the rest of the brain, which is still out of the possibilities for the near future.
Cool stuff, though.
I did programming for them last fall, so I got to know some of the people doing the chip work. Rather than doing it for the reasons presented above (ie, weapons/AI) a lot of this is done in the mindset of pure research. These chips also give us a method to test some of the ideas we have about how brains work. After all, if you can build one, you can understand one.
In terms of making things like artificial eyes, we would first need to be able to track all of the neurons running from the eye to the rest of the brain, which is still out of the possibilities for the near future.
Cool stuff, though.
