{"id":108628,"date":"2020-06-13T18:27:14","date_gmt":"2020-06-14T01:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/mits-tiny-new-brain-chip-aims-for-ai-in-your-pocket"},"modified":"2020-06-13T18:27:14","modified_gmt":"2020-06-14T01:27:14","slug":"mits-tiny-new-brain-chip-aims-for-ai-in-your-pocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/mits-tiny-new-brain-chip-aims-for-ai-in-your-pocket","title":{"rendered":"MIT\u2019s Tiny New Brain Chip Aims for AI in Your Pocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mits-tiny-new-brain-chip-aims-for-ai-in-your-pocket2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The human brain operates on roughly 20 watts of power (a third of a 60-watt light bulb) in a space the size of, well, a human head. The biggest machine learning algorithms use closer to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/ai-great-things-burn-planet\/\">a nuclear power plant\u2019s<\/a> worth of electricity and racks of chips to learn.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not to slander machine learning, but nature may have a tip or two to improve the situation. Luckily, there\u2019s a branch of computer chip design heeding that call. By mimicking the brain, super-efficient <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/search\/?q=neuromorphic\">neuromorphic chips<\/a> aim to take AI off the cloud and <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2018\/02\/26\/putting-ai-in-your-pocket-mit-chip-cuts-neural-network-power-consumption-by-95\/\">put it in your pocket<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The latest such chip is smaller than a piece of confetti and has tens of thousands of artificial synapses made out of memristors\u2014chip components that can mimic their natural counterparts in the brain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The human brain operates on roughly 20 watts of power (a third of a 60-watt light bulb) in a space the size of, well, a human head. The biggest machine learning algorithms use closer to a nuclear power plant\u2019s worth of electricity and racks of chips to learn. That\u2019s not to slander machine learning, but [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108628","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=108628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}