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From the Ted Talk by Kwabena Boahen: A computer that works like the brain

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What I want to basically talk about is my dream, which is to build a ctpmeour that works like the brain. This is something that we've been working on for the last couple of years. And I'm going to show you a system that we dieesngd to model the retina, which is a pceie of brain that lines the inside of your elbaeyl. We didn't do this by actually wirintg code, like you do in a computer. In fact, the processing that happens in that little piece of brain is very similar to the kind of processing that computers do when they stream video over the Internet. They want to compress the information — they just want to send the changes, what's new in the image, and so on — and that is how your eyeball is able to squeeze all that information down to your optic nvere, to send to the rest of the biran.

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What I want to basically talk about is my dream, which is to build a ________ that works like the brain. This is something that we've been working on for the last couple of years. And I'm going to show you a system that we ________ to model the retina, which is a _____ of brain that lines the inside of your _______. We didn't do this by actually _______ code, like you do in a computer. In fact, the processing that happens in that little piece of brain is very similar to the kind of processing that computers do when they stream video over the Internet. They want to compress the information — they just want to send the changes, what's new in the image, and so on — and that is how your eyeball is able to squeeze all that information down to your optic _____, to send to the rest of the _____.

Solution


  1. computer
  2. writing
  3. piece
  4. nerve
  5. eyeball
  6. designed
  7. brain

Original Text


What I want to basically talk about is my dream, which is to build a computer that works like the brain. This is something that we've been working on for the last couple of years. And I'm going to show you a system that we designed to model the retina, which is a piece of brain that lines the inside of your eyeball. We didn't do this by actually writing code, like you do in a computer. In fact, the processing that happens in that little piece of brain is very similar to the kind of processing that computers do when they stream video over the Internet. They want to compress the information — they just want to send the changes, what's new in the image, and so on — and that is how your eyeball is able to squeeze all that information down to your optic nerve, to send to the rest of the brain.

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