{"id":139416,"date":"2022-05-16T12:02:58","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T17:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/lighting-up-artificial-neural-networks-with-optomemristors"},"modified":"2022-05-16T12:02:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T17:02:58","slug":"lighting-up-artificial-neural-networks-with-optomemristors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/lighting-up-artificial-neural-networks-with-optomemristors","title":{"rendered":"Lighting up artificial neural networks with optomemristors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lighting-up-artificial-neural-networks-with-optomemristors3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of international scientists have performed difficult machine learning computations using a nano-scale device, named an \u201coptomemristor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The chalcogenide thin-film device uses both light and <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/electrical+signals\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electrical signals<\/a> to interact and emulate multi-factor biological computations of the mammalian brain while consuming very little energy.<\/p>\n<p>To date, research on hardware for <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/artificial+intelligence\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">artificial intelligence<\/a> and machine learning applications has concentrated mainly on developing electronic or photonic synapses and neurons, and combining these to carry out basic forms of neural-type processing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of international scientists have performed difficult machine learning computations using a nano-scale device, named an \u201coptomemristor.\u201d The chalcogenide thin-film device uses both light and electrical signals to interact and emulate multi-factor biological computations of the mammalian brain while consuming very little energy. To date, research on hardware for artificial intelligence and machine learning [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-nanotechnology","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139416","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}