{"id":124620,"date":"2021-07-05T15:23:31","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T22:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/an-artificial-network-kept-on-the-edge-of-chaos-acts-much-like-a-human-brain"},"modified":"2021-07-05T15:23:31","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T22:23:31","slug":"an-artificial-network-kept-on-the-edge-of-chaos-acts-much-like-a-human-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/an-artificial-network-kept-on-the-edge-of-chaos-acts-much-like-a-human-brain","title":{"rendered":"An Artificial Network Kept on The \u2018Edge of Chaos\u2019 Acts Much Like a Human Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/an-artificial-network-kept-on-the-edge-of-chaos-acts-much-like-a-human-brain2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have demonstrated how to keep a network of nanowires in a state that\u2019s right on what\u2019s known as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edge_of_chaos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the edge of chaos<\/a> \u2013 an achievement that could be used to produce <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/artificial-intelligence\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"artificial intelligence\">artificial intelligence<\/a> (AI) that acts much like the human brain does.<\/p>\n<p>The team used varying levels of electricity on a nanowire simulation, finding a balance when the electric signal was too low when the signal was too high. If the signal was too low, the network\u2019s outputs weren\u2019t complex enough to be useful; if the signal was too high, the outputs were a mess and also useless.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe found that if you push the signal too slowly the network just does the same thing over and over without learning and developing. If we pushed it too hard and fast, the network becomes erratic and unpredictable,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sydney.edu.au\/news-opinion\/news\/2021\/06\/29\/edge-of-chaos-pathway-artificial-intelligence-nanowire-neural-network.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">says physicist Joel Hochstetter<\/a> from the University of Sydney and the study\u2019s lead author.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have demonstrated how to keep a network of nanowires in a state that\u2019s right on what\u2019s known as the edge of chaos \u2013 an achievement that could be used to produce artificial intelligence (AI) that acts much like the human brain does. The team used varying levels of electricity on a nanowire simulation, finding [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124620","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}