{"id":141751,"date":"2022-07-06T19:24:49","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T00:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/computer-chips-that-imitate-the-brain"},"modified":"2022-07-06T19:24:49","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T00:24:49","slug":"computer-chips-that-imitate-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/computer-chips-that-imitate-the-brain","title":{"rendered":"Computer Chips That Imitate the Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/computer-chips-that-imitate-the-brain.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A multi-institutional collaboration, which includes the <a href=https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/doe\/>U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE)<\/a> <a href=https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/argonne-national-laboratory\/>Argonne National Laboratory<\/a>, has created a material that can be used to create computer chips that can do just that. It achieves this by using so-called \u201cneuromorphic\u201d circuitry and computer architecture to replicate brain functions. <a href=https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/purdue-university\/>Purdue University<\/a> professor Shriram Ramanathan led the team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHuman brains can actually change as a result of learning new things,\u201d said Subramanian Sankaranarayanan, a paper co-author with a joint appointment at Argonne and the University of Illinois Chicago. \u201cWe have now created a device for machines to reconfigure their circuits in a brain-like way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With this capability, artificial intelligence-based computers might do difficult jobs more quickly and accurately while using a lot less energy. One example is analyzing complicated medical images. Autonomous cars and robots in space that might rewire their circuits depending on experience are a more futuristic example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A multi-institutional collaboration, which includes the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, has created a material that can be used to create computer chips that can do just that. It achieves this by using so-called \u201cneuromorphic\u201d circuitry and computer architecture to replicate brain functions. Purdue University professor Shriram Ramanathan led the team. \u201cHuman [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1878,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-employment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141751","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=141751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}