{"id":108379,"date":"2020-06-08T13:44:46","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T20:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/mit-fit-tens-of-thousands-of-artificial-brain-synapses-on-a-single-chip"},"modified":"2020-06-08T13:44:46","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T20:44:46","slug":"mit-fit-tens-of-thousands-of-artificial-brain-synapses-on-a-single-chip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/mit-fit-tens-of-thousands-of-artificial-brain-synapses-on-a-single-chip","title":{"rendered":"MIT fit tens of thousands of artificial brain synapses on a single chip"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Someday, we might be able to carry around tiny, AI brains that can function without supercomputers, the internet or the cloud. Researchers from MIT say their new \u201cbrain-on-a-chip\u201d design gets us one step closer to that future. A group of engineers put tens of thousands of artificial brain synapses, known as memristors<\/a>, on a single chip that\u2019s smaller than a piece of confetti.<\/p>\n

In a paper published in Nature Nanotechnology<\/em><\/a>, the researchers explain how their brain-inspired chip was able to remember and recreate a gray-scale image of Captain America\u2019s shield and reliably alter an image of MIT\u2019s Killian Court by sharpening and blurring it. Those tests may seem minor, but the team believes the chip design could advance the development of small, portable AI devices and carry out complex computational tasks that today only supercomputers are capable of.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo far, artificial synapse networks exist as software. We\u2019re trying to build real neural network hardware for portable artificial intelligence systems,\u201d says Jeehwan Kim, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. \u201cImagine connecting a neuromorphic device to a camera on your car, and having it recognize lights and objects and make a decision immediately, without having to connect to the internet.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Someday, we might be able to carry around tiny, AI brains that can function without supercomputers, the internet or the cloud. Researchers from MIT say their new \u201cbrain-on-a-chip\u201d design gets us one step closer to that future. A group of engineers put tens of thousands of artificial brain synapses, known as memristors, on a single [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,6,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-robotics-ai","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}