“And now the government is pushing forward what is perhaps the most high-risk, high-reward project of our time: brain-like artificial intelligence.
And they’re betting $100 million that they’ll succeed in next decade.
Led by IARPA and a part of the larger BRAIN Initiative, the MICrONS (Machine Intelligence from Cortical Networks) project seeks to revolutionize machine learning by reverse engineering algorithms of the mammalian cortex.”
Source: US Bets $100 Million on Machines That Think More Like Humans – Singularity HUB