{"id":122000,"date":"2021-04-26T18:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T01:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/advancing-ai-with-a-supercomputer-a-blueprint-for-an-optoelectronic-brain"},"modified":"2021-04-26T18:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T01:22:17","slug":"advancing-ai-with-a-supercomputer-a-blueprint-for-an-optoelectronic-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/advancing-ai-with-a-supercomputer-a-blueprint-for-an-optoelectronic-brain","title":{"rendered":"Advancing AI With a Supercomputer: A Blueprint for an Optoelectronic \u2018Brain\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/advancing-ai-with-a-supercomputer-a-blueprint-for-an-optoelectronic-brain2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Others think we\u2019re still missing fundamental aspects of how intelligence works, and that the best way to fill the gaps is to borrow from nature. For many that means building \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2021\/02\/09\/the-next-ai-hardware-could-be-a-quantum-brain\/\">neuromorphic<\/a>\u201d hardware that more closely mimics the architecture and operation of biological brains.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that the existing computer technology we have at our disposal looks very different from biological information processing systems, and operates on completely different principles. For a start, modern computers are digital and neurons are analog. And although both rely on electrical signals, they come in very different flavors, and the brain also uses a host of chemical signals to carry out processing.<\/p>\n<p>Now though, researchers at NIST think they\u2019ve found a way to combine existing technologies in a way that could mimic the core attributes of the brain. Using their approach, they outline a blueprint for a \u201cneuromorphic supercomputer\u201d that could not only match, but surpass the physical limits of biological systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Others think we\u2019re still missing fundamental aspects of how intelligence works, and that the best way to fill the gaps is to borrow from nature. For many that means building \u201cneuromorphic\u201d hardware that more closely mimics the architecture and operation of biological brains. The problem is that the existing computer technology we have at our [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19,6,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-chemistry","category-robotics-ai","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122000","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}