{"id":130378,"date":"2021-11-10T22:22:36","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T06:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/new-spiking-neuromorphic-chip-could-usher-in-an-era-of-highly-efficient-ai"},"modified":"2021-11-10T22:22:36","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T06:22:36","slug":"new-spiking-neuromorphic-chip-could-usher-in-an-era-of-highly-efficient-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/new-spiking-neuromorphic-chip-could-usher-in-an-era-of-highly-efficient-ai","title":{"rendered":"New Spiking Neuromorphic Chip Could Usher in an Era of Highly Efficient AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-spiking-neuromorphic-chip-could-usher-in-an-era-of-highly-efficient-ai3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s take a look at a highly abstracted neuron. It\u2019s like a tootsie roll, with a bulbous middle section flanked by two outward-reaching wrappers. One side is the input\u2014an intricate tree that receives signals from a previous neuron. The other is the output, blasting signals to other neurons using bubble-like ships filled with chemicals, which in turn triggers an electrical response on the receiving end.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the crux: for this entire sequence to occur, the neuron has to \u201cspike.\u201d If, and only if, the neuron receives a high enough level of input\u2014a nicely built-in noise reduction mechanism\u2014the bulbous part will generate a spike that travels down the output channels to alert the next neuron.<\/p>\n<p>But neurons don\u2019t just use one spike to convey information. Rather, they spike in a time sequence. Think of it like Morse Code: the timing of when an electrical burst occurs carries a wealth of data. It\u2019s the basis for neurons wiring up into circuits and hierarchies, allowing highly energy-efficient processing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s take a look at a highly abstracted neuron. It\u2019s like a tootsie roll, with a bulbous middle section flanked by two outward-reaching wrappers. One side is the input\u2014an intricate tree that receives signals from a previous neuron. The other is the output, blasting signals to other neurons using bubble-like ships filled with chemicals, which [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130378","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=130378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}