IBM's top brains working on a 'brain in a box'

Washington

THE human brain is a powerful supercomputer, but it consumes very little power. The brain is also excellent at processing information efficiently - billions of neurons are deeply connected to memory areas - which gives us the ability to access the data we need to make a decision, quickly make sense of it and then resume normal operation.

That fundamental structure is what sets us apart from machines. It's the reason we can think and feel and process millions of pieces of data in a fraction of a second every day, without our heads exploding.