{"id":12461,"date":"2014-10-09T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T16:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=12461"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:12:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:12:00","slug":"ibm-develops-a-new-chip-that-functions-like-a-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/ibm-develops-a-new-chip-that-functions-like-a-brain","title":{"rendered":"IBM Develops a New Chip That Functions Like a Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"byline\">By <a title=\"More Articles by JOHN MARKOFF\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/m\/john_markoff\/index.html\" rel=\"author\"><span class=\"byline-author\" data-byline-name=\"JOHN MARKOFF\" data-twitter-handle=\"markoff\">JOHN MARKOFF<\/span><\/a><\/span> \u2014 New York Times<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"decoded\" src=\"\" alt=\"http:\/\/www.redorbit.com\/media\/uploads\/2014\/08\/brain-chip-617x416.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-1\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"217\" data-total-count=\"217\">Inspired by the architecture of the brain, scientists have developed a new kind of computer chip that uses no more power than a hearing aid and may eventually excel at calculations that stump today\u2019s supercomputers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"304\" data-total-count=\"521\">The chip, or processor, is named TrueNorth and was developed by researchers at IBM and detailed in an <a title=\"Abstract of the article.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/345\/6197\/668\">article<\/a> published on Thursday in the journal Science. It tries to mimic the way brains recognize patterns, relying on densely interconnected webs of transistors similar to the brain\u2019s neural networks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"304\" data-total-count=\"521\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/08\/08\/science\/new-computer-chip-is-designed-to-work-like-the-brain.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JOHN MARKOFF \u2014 New York Times Inspired by the architecture of the brain, scientists have developed a new kind of computer chip that uses no more power than a hearing aid and may eventually excel at calculations that stump today\u2019s supercomputers. The chip, or processor, is named TrueNorth and was developed by researchers at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1524,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-hardware","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12461","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46838,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12461\/revisions\/46838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}