{"id":139046,"date":"2022-05-07T11:04:16","date_gmt":"2022-05-07T16:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/using-optomemristors-to-light-up-artificial-neural-networks"},"modified":"2022-05-07T11:04:16","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T16:04:16","slug":"using-optomemristors-to-light-up-artificial-neural-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/using-optomemristors-to-light-up-artificial-neural-networks","title":{"rendered":"Using Optomemristors To Light Up Artificial Neural Networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/using-optomemristors-to-light-up-artificial-neural-networks.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Artificial intelligence and machine learning hardware research have concentrated on building photonic synapses and neurons and combining them to do fundamental forms of neural-type processing. However, complex processing methods found in human brains\u2014such as reinforcement learning and dendritic computation\u2014are more challenging to replicate directly in hardware.<\/p>\n<p>A new study contributes to closing the \u201chardware gap\u201d by creating an \u201cOptomemristor\u201d device that responds to numerous electronic and photonic inputs at the same time. The diverse biophysical mechanisms that govern the functions of the brain\u2019s neurons and synapses allow for complex learning and processing in the mammalian brain.<\/p>\n<p>The chalcogenide thin-film technology interacts with both light and electrical impulses to mimic multifactor biological computations in mammalian brains while spending very little energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence and machine learning hardware research have concentrated on building photonic synapses and neurons and combining them to do fundamental forms of neural-type processing. However, complex processing methods found in human brains\u2014such as reinforcement learning and dendritic computation\u2014are more challenging to replicate directly in hardware. A new study contributes to closing the \u201chardware gap\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139046","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}