Its about developing new technologies in the world of artificial intelligence and creating artificial brains to help humans in efficient manner.

1. Gautam Sharma
(080CS2121044)

2. OUTLINE…
• Introduction
• Why Blue Brain?
• Objectives of Blue Brain Project
• Human brain configuration
• Simulating Virtual brain
• Uploading Human Brain
• Requirement & Power
• Pros & cons
• Applications &Future Perspective
• Closing Thoughts
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3. INTRODUCTION
 HUMAN BRAIN, the most valuable creation of God. The man is
called intelligent because of the brain. But we loss the knowledge
of a brain when the body is destroyed after the death .
 “BLUE BRAIN”- The name of the world’s first virtual brain. That
means a machine that can function as human brain.
 Is it really possible to create a human
brain?

4. Why we need VIRTUAL BRAIN ?
• Intelligence ,Knowledge and skill
of a person can be made eternal.
• We can upload the contents of
natural brain into it.
• Things can be made easy as
everything is automated.

5. OBJECTIVES OF VIRTUAL BRAIN
• IBM’s blue brain project will search for insights into how
human beings think and remember.
• Scientists think that blue brain could also help to cure the
Parkinson's disease.
• The brain circuitry is in a complex state of flux, the brain
rewiring itself every moment of its existence. If the scientists
can crack open the secret of how and why the brain does it,
the knowledge could lead to new breed of supercomputers.
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6. HOW OUR BRAIN WORKS?
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Nervous System
~ Sensory Input
~ Interpretation
~ Motor Output
~ Electric Impulses

7. BRAIN SIMULATION
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Simulating human
brain by reverse
engineering &
combining biological
studies to digital
technology using
concept of Artificial
Neural Network
(ANN)

8. NATURAL BRAIN VS BLUE BRAIN
INPUT
• Through the natural neurons
INTERPRETATION
• By different states of the
neurons in the brain.
OUTPUT
• Through the natural cells.
INPUT
• Through the silicon chip or
artificial sensory cells
INTERPRETATION
• By a set of bits in the set of
register
OUTPUT
• Through the silicon chip.

9. PROCESSING
• Through arithmetic and
logical calculations
MEMORY
• Through permanent states of
neurons
PROCESSING
• Through arithmetic and
logical calculation and
artificial intelligence
MEMORY
• Through Secondary memory

10. Uploading Human Brain
• The uploading is possible by the use of small robots known as the
nanobots.
• These robots are small enough to travel through out our
circulatory system.
• Traveling into the spine and brain, they will be able to monitor the
activity and structure of our central nervous system.
• They will be able to provide an interface with computer while we
still reside in our biological form .

11. • Nanobots could also carefully scan the structure of our brain,
providing a complete readout of the connection.
• This information, when entered into a computer, could then
continue to function as us.
• Thus the data stored in the entire brain will be uploaded into
the computer.

12. REQUIREMENTS
The hardware & software required to build a Blue Brain…
• 8,096 CPUs at 700 MHz each of which can map one or two simulated brain
neurons
• 256MB to 512MB memory per processor.
• 100 kilowatts power consumption.
• Processor with a very high processing power.
• 22.8 TFLOPS peak processing speed.
• Linux and C++ software.
• very powerful Nanobots to act as the interface between the natural brain and
the computer.
• a program to convert the electric impulses from the brain to input signal, which
is to be received by the computer and vice versa.
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13. REQUIREMENTS
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14. BLUE BRAIN POWER
• Blue Brain will reveal many existing
aspects of the brain circuits ,memory
capacity , and how memories are
lost.
• The modelling is also able to work
out best way to compensate and
repair error circuits .The blue brain
model can be used to detect and
test treatment strategies for
neurological diseases.
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15. CURRENT RESEARCH WORK
• IBM developing the “Blue brain” .
• IBM, in partnership with scientists at Switzerland’s Ecole
Polytechnique Federal De Lausanne’s(EPFL) Brain and Mind
Institute will begin simulating the brain’s biological systems.

16. • Researchers at Microsoft's Media Presence Lab are developing a
"virtual brain," a PC-based database that holds a record of an
individual's complete life experience.
• "By 2047, almost all information will be in cyberspace including
all knowledge and creative works, said one of the project's
leaders, Gordon Bell.

17. ADVANTAGES
 Remembering things without any effort.
 Making decision without the presence of a
person.
 Using intelligence of a person after the death.
 Understanding the activities of animals .
 Advantageous to cure diff. brain disease.
 Allowing the deaf to hear via direct nerve
stimulation.

18. DISADVANTAGES
 We become dependent upon the computer .
 Others may use technical knowledge against us.
 Another fear is found with respect to human cloning.
 A very costly procedure of regaining the memory back.
 If in future surrogates to humans are developed then, there will be
no human interaction and the world will run on computers only.

19. CLOSING THOUGHTS
• Very soon this technology will be highly accepted whole over
the world but wisdom lies in right use.
• Eventually aim of applying terrific computer power to the
simulation of an entire brain.
• “Technology does not create Brain but Brain creates
Technology”
• We will be able to transfer ourselves into computers at some
point & this is just the beginning……..!
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20. Thank you