Here's the original Nature paper:<p><a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature09880.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/natu...</a>
This should make Ray Kurzweil happy.<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1611007" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1611007</a>
Combine with <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2421597" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2421597</a> and perhaps sentience gets achieved in a Google cluster. :)
Is Tom Mrsic-Flogel, the lead researcher, any relation to Janko Mrsic-Flogel who is credited as programmer on some early '80s videogames and as musician on many later ones?
This was featured on a TED a while ago:<p><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sebastian_seung.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.ted.com/talks/sebastian_seung.html</a>