IBM is developing a "Blue Brain" project to simulate the human brain using supercomputers. The goal is to understand how the brain works by reverse engineering its biological components into a digital simulated model. If successful, it could allow human intelligence and knowledge to be uploaded into computers. This would allow thinking and memory to continue even after death and help develop treatments for neurological diseases. However, concerns exist that people may become too reliant on computers and that the technology could potentially be misused.

1. THE FUTURE GENERATION
Presented by
A Yuvan Kumar
Anjali Kumari
CSE 3rd Yr
AURORA,Bandlaguda

2.  INTRODUCTION
 WHAT IS BLUE BRAIN
 WHY WE NEED VIRTUAL BRAIN
 FUNCTION OF NATURAL BRAIN
 BRAIN SIMULATION
 OBJECTIVES
 CURRENT RESEARCH WORK
 REQUIRMENTS
 UPLOADING HUMAN BRAIN
 PROS
 CONS
 APPLICATIONS
 FUTURE PERSPECTIVE
 CLOSING THOUGHTS

3.  Could a simulated brain start to think, feel and
experience the world as if it were an organic, human
brain?
 Technology is growing faster than everything. If
possible, IBM’s “BLUE BRAIN”, an artificial brain that
can think, respond, take decision, and keep anything in
memory, would be the first virtual brain of the world.
 Is it really possible to create a human brain?

4. • “Blue brain” –The name of the world’s first virtual brain.
That means a machine that can function as human brain.
• Today ,scientists are in research to create an artificial brain
that can think, response, take decision, and keep anything in
memory.
• The main aim is to upload human brain into machine. So that
man can think, take decision without any effort.
• After the death of the body, the virtual brain will act as the
man .

5.  So, even after the death of a person we will not loose the
knowledge, intelligence, personalities, feelings and memories
of that man that can be used for the development of the
human society.
 IBM is now in research to create a virtual brain. It is called
“Blue brain “.
 If possible, this would be the first virtual brain of the world.

6.  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.

7.  A very good example of utilization of blue
brain is the case “short term memory”.
 In some movies we might have noticed that
a person might be having short term
memories.

8.  A another situation is that when a person gets
older, then he starts forgetting or takes a bit more
time to recognize to a person.
 For the above reason we need a blue brain.

9.  Sensory Input :-
Receiving input such as sound ,image, etc
through sensory cell .
 Interpretation:-
Interpretation of the received input by the brain by
defining states of neurons in the brain.
 Motor Output:-
Receiving of electric responses from the brain to
perform any action .

10.  Simulating human brain by
reverse engineering &
combining biological
studies to digital
technology using concept
of Artificial Neural
Network (ANN)

11. NATURAL
BRAIN
SIMULATED
BRAIN
INPUT
Through the Natural neurons.
INPUT
Through the silicon chip or
artificial neurons.
INTERPRETATION
By different states of the
neuron in the brain.
INTERPRETATION
By a set of bits in the set of
register .

12. OUTPUT
Through the natural neurons.
OUTPUT
Through the silicon chip.
PROCESSING
Through arithmetic and
logical calculations .
PROCESSING
Through arithmetic and
logical calculation and artificial
intelligence.
MEMORY
Through permanent states of
neurons .
MEMORY
Through Secondary
memory .

13.  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.

14. • 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.

15. • 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.

16. 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.

17.  The uploading is possible
by the use of small robots
known as the
NANOBOTS.
 These robots are small
enough to travel
throughout our circulatory
system.
 Will monitor activity of
brain by traveling into the
spine and brain
 They will provide an
interface with computer .

18.  Blue Brain will reveal many
existing aspects of the brain
circuits ,memory capacity ,
and how memories are lost.
 The modeling 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.

19.  We can remember things
without any effort.
 Decision can be made without
the presence of a person.
 Even after the death of a man
his intelligence can be used.
 Improvements in processing
speed and memory could
make entire human brain
simulated.
 The activity of different
animals can be understood.
 Help deaf and mad people

20.  We become dependent upon the computer
systems.
 Others may use technical knowledge against
us.
 Computer viruses will pose an increasingly
critical threat.
 Possibilities of human cloning.
 If in future surrogates to humans are
developed then, there will be no human
interaction and the world will run on
computers only

21.  Gathering and Testing 100 Years of Data
 Cracking the Neural Code
 A Foundation for Molecular Modeling of Brain
Function
 Understanding Neocortical Information Process
ing
 A Novel Tool for Drug Discovery for Brain
Disorders
 A Global Facility
 A Foundation for Whole Brain Simulations

22.  Prosthetic devices to restore vision, hearing or
limb control might be the next step.
 Further in the future, the real dreams would be
the realization of the “brain-in-computer and
chip-in-brain” arrangement.
 Creating Surrogates
 This is just ’blink of an eye’…there’s lot more to
come…

23.  Very soon this technology will be highly
accepted whole over the world but wisdom lies
in right use.
 “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……..!