{"id":129795,"date":"2021-11-01T21:22:48","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T04:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/key-to-resilient-energy-efficient-ai-may-reside-in-human-brain"},"modified":"2021-11-01T21:22:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T04:22:48","slug":"key-to-resilient-energy-efficient-ai-may-reside-in-human-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/key-to-resilient-energy-efficient-ai-may-reside-in-human-brain","title":{"rendered":"Key to resilient energy-efficient AI may reside in human brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/key-to-resilient-energy-efficient-ai-may-reside-in-human-brain2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A clearer understanding of how a type of brain cell known as astrocytes function and can be emulated in the physics of hardware devices, may result in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning that autonomously self-repairs and consumes much less energy than the technologies currently do, according to a team of Penn State researchers.<\/p>\n<p>Astrocytes are named for their star shape and are a type of glial cell, which are support cells for neurons in the <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/brain\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain<\/a>. They play a crucial role in brain functions such as memory, learning, self-repair and synchronization.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis project stemmed from recent observations in <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/computational+neuroscience\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">computational neuroscience<\/a>, as there has been a lot of effort and understanding of how the brain works and people are trying to revise the model of simplistic neuron-synapse connections,\u201d said Abhronil Sengupta, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science. \u201cIt turns out there is a third component in the brain, the astrocytes, which constitutes a significant section of the cells in the brain, but its role in machine learning and neuroscience has kind of been overlooked.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A clearer understanding of how a type of brain cell known as astrocytes function and can be emulated in the physics of hardware devices, may result in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning that autonomously self-repairs and consumes much less energy than the technologies currently do, according to a team of Penn State researchers. Astrocytes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,219,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience","category-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129795","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}