The nefarious high priests of the Great Temple of the Evil Robot, seem to ceaselessly worship at the feat of their craven idol. It seems the merry pranksters at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, seeking no doubt their own personal blasphemy of dark, quasi-francophillic robots with the notorious precision of The Swiss, are working late into the evenings to imbue their monsters with ever greater intellect. Touche Monsieurs, touche...

"Are we humans – with our carbon-based neural net “wetware” brains – at a point in history when we might be able to imprint the circuitry of the human brain using transistors on a silicon chip?

A well-covered recent article in MIT's Technology Review reports that a team of European scientists may have taken the first steps in creating a silicon chip designed to function like a human brain."

The unholy meshing of things meant to be discrete. Oh the horror...

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