{"id":149780,"date":"2022-11-09T15:24:53","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T21:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/speaking-the-same-language-how-artificial-neurons-mimic-biological-neurons"},"modified":"2022-11-09T15:24:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T21:24:53","slug":"speaking-the-same-language-how-artificial-neurons-mimic-biological-neurons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/speaking-the-same-language-how-artificial-neurons-mimic-biological-neurons","title":{"rendered":"Speaking the same language: How artificial neurons mimic biological neurons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/speaking-the-same-language-how-artificial-neurons-mimic-biological-neurons3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Artificial intelligence has long been a hot topic: a computer algorithm \u201clearns\u201d by being taught by examples: What is \u201cright\u201d and what is \u201cwrong.\u201d Unlike a computer algorithm, the human brain works with neurons\u2014cells of the brain. These are trained and pass on signals to other neurons. This complex network of neurons and the connecting pathways, the synapses, controls our thoughts and actions.<\/p>\n<p>Biological signals are much more diverse when compared with those in conventional computers. For instance, neurons in a biological neural network communicate with ions, biomolecules and neurotransmitters. More specifically, neurons communicate either chemically\u2014by emitting the messenger substances such as neurotransmitters\u2014or via <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/electrical+impulses\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electrical impulses<\/a>, so-called \u201caction potentials\u201d or \u201cspikes\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Artificial neurons are a current area of research. Here, the efficient communication between the biology and electronics requires the realization of <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/artificial+neurons\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">artificial neurons<\/a> that emulate realistically the function of their biological counterparts. This means artificial neurons capable of processing the diversity of signals that exist in biology. Until now, most artificial neurons only emulate their biological counterparts electrically, without taking into account the wet biological environment that consists of ions, biomolecules and neurotransmitters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence has long been a hot topic: a computer algorithm \u201clearns\u201d by being taught by examples: What is \u201cright\u201d and what is \u201cwrong.\u201d Unlike a computer algorithm, the human brain works with neurons\u2014cells of the brain. These are trained and pass on signals to other neurons. This complex network of neurons and the connecting [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19,41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-chemistry","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149780","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=149780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}