Abst: Building Artificial Brain for Less Than $10K, By Dr. Hugo de Garis
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Abstract posted for the May 20-21 AGI Workshop: Building an Artificial Brain for Less Than $10,000 By Dr. Hugo de Garis, Computer Science Department, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, USA. International School of Software, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, profhugodegaris@yahoo.com  PPT: Building an Artificial Brain for Less Than $10,000Most artificial brain projects currently underway are expensive, involving the use of supercomputers or PC clusters containing 100s-1000s of processor nodes (e.g. Switzerland's "Blue Brain Project" with its IBM "Blue Gene" supercomputer, or Artificial Development's 1000 PC processor cluster brain simulation (http://www.ad.com)). This talk presents a way to build an artificial brain for less than $10,000. The approach my research teams take is the following. A 6-megagate FPGA electronic board (http://www.celoxica.com) costing about $7000 is used to evolve neural network modules via a standard genetic algorithm. The software is written in "Handel-C", a high level, C-like language, that is hardware compiled into the FPGA. Using the electronic speeds of the Celoxica board, the evolution of a single module takes minutes, as against hours to days on an ordinary PC. Evolution speed is essential if 10,000s of modules are to be evolved to build an artificial brain in a reasonable time. Each module is downloaded into the memory of a PC. Once several 10,000s of such modules (each with its own little evolved function) are downloaded, they are interconnected according to the designs of "BAs" (Brain Architects) to build artificial brains. The neural signaling of the whole brain is performed by the PC in real time (i.e. 25 Hz per neuron). 2-way radio antennas between the brain in the PC and the robot allow the brain to control the many autonomous behaviors of the robot containing a CMUCAM2 camera, a gripper, and wheels. Such a robot can be built for less than $1000, hence the total cost of brain + vehicle $10,000. At such a price, it is hoped that "Brain Building" or "Artificial Brains" as a research field, can now afford to take off. Important Links: Main Workshop Website: http://www.agiri.org/workshop Directions/Hotel: http://www.agiri.org/directions.htm Workshop Schedule: http://www.agiri.org/schedule.htm Printable Version / Handout: http://www.agiri.org/workshop/AGIRI_Workshop_2006.pdf  
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