{"id":113760,"date":"2020-10-03T01:22:28","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T08:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/50-million-artificial-neurons-to-facilitate-machine-learning-research"},"modified":"2020-10-03T01:22:28","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T08:22:28","slug":"50-million-artificial-neurons-to-facilitate-machine-learning-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/50-million-artificial-neurons-to-facilitate-machine-learning-research","title":{"rendered":"50 Million Artificial Neurons to Facilitate Machine-Learning Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/50-million-artificial-neurons-to-facilitate-machine-learning-research2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fifty million artificial neurons\u2014a number roughly equivalent to the brain of a small mammal\u2014were delivered from Portland, Oregon-based Intel Corp. to Sandia National Laboratories last month, said Sandia project leader Craig Vineyard.<\/p>\n<p>The neurons will be assembled to advance a relatively new kind of computing, called neuromorphic, based on the principles of the human brain. Its artificial components pass information in a manner similar to the action of living neurons, electrically pulsing only when a synapse in a complex circuit has absorbed enough charge to produce an electrical spike.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith a neuromorphic <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/computer\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">computer<\/a> of this scale,\u201d Vineyard said, \u201cwe have a new tool to understand how brain-based computers are able to do impressive feats that we cannot currently do with ordinary computers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty million artificial neurons\u2014a number roughly equivalent to the brain of a small mammal\u2014were delivered from Portland, Oregon-based Intel Corp. to Sandia National Laboratories last month, said Sandia project leader Craig Vineyard. The neurons will be assembled to advance a relatively new kind of computing, called neuromorphic, based on the principles of the human brain. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113760","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=113760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}