Tiny chip mimics brain, delivers supercomputer speed

Anyone in the market for a well maintained Turing Machine? I've got one for sale.

Time to buy stock in Skynet.

yay we can replace humans! oh wait... oh well

Some factoids:

Cerebral cortex is the wrinkled surface layer of the brain. We believe it's responsible a lot of signal processing and higher-level functions (as in: long-term planning, language, understanding of visual cues, touch) but calling it a "command center" is misleading. It seems to be more of a committee of experts. When you're in panic, your limbic system will be the "command center". When performing tasks that require manual dexterity, the cerebellum is "in command". The whole brain keeps alert so other parts can step in when their area of expertise is needed.

Left-brain, right-brain duality is not a case of "left side does maths, right side does finger painting". The two hemispheres of the cortex divide tasks and when disconnected (treatment for epilepsy), patients have trouble connecting words to their meaning, if reading with one eye covered, or have trouble synchronizing both hands in a task like buttoning a shirt.

It's hardly the first electronic device modelled after biological neural networks. There's a multitude of neural structures in nature, and we have modelled some of them mathematically and in silico. Unfortunately, the topic is so complicated, researchers have to cut it down to "something like the brain" (as in: brain of the deep sea mollusk) when talking to the media.

For any real world task, neural-inspired chips do image or signal processing, but are otherwise supervised by traditional chips. Traditional, binary chips play jeopardy and chess (what is commonly referred to as left-brain tasks). Brain-inspired chips struggle with balancing on two legs.

Let us see if this gets a lot of press or t.v. coverage. If this hits the market it will really surprise me. Something like this could replace vain, corrupt, greedy humans and make politicians and judges obsolete. This would displace the corrupt systems that run the world now......making it a giant no no.

Humans are very eagerly racing toward the goal of eradicating themselves.

i am happy to see this! Making smartphones and smart appliances even smarter! soon AI will be just "I" without the Artificial, it has its own intelligence already!

while US is building a lot of super computer networks to mimic the brain that requires tons of power, here we have a tiny chip powered merely by a cell battery... i don't understand anything! :D

Amazing. I hope this chip becomes part of everyday devices soon.

I've got a tiny chip.