{"id":151724,"date":"2022-12-02T23:25:47","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T05:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/reconfigurable-ai-device-shows-brain-like-promise"},"modified":"2022-12-02T23:25:47","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T05:25:47","slug":"reconfigurable-ai-device-shows-brain-like-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/reconfigurable-ai-device-shows-brain-like-promise","title":{"rendered":"Reconfigurable AI Device Shows Brain-Like Promise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/reconfigurable-ai-device-shows-brain-like-promise2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An adaptable new device can transform into all the key electric components needed for artificial-intelligence hardware, for potential use in robotics and autonomous systems, a new study finds.<\/p>\n<p>Brain-inspired or \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/neuromorphic-computing-with-lohi2\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">neuromorphic\u201d computer hardware<\/a> aims to mimic the human brain\u2019s exceptional ability to adaptively learn from experience and rapidly process information in an extraordinarily energy-efficient manner. These features of the brain are due in large part to its <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/what-is-brain-plasticity-and-why-is-it-so-important-55967\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">plastic nature <\/a>\u2014its ability to evolve its structure and function over time through activity such as neuron formation or \u201cneurogenesis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hypothesized if we could mimic these neurogenesis behaviors in electrical hardware, we could make machines that learn throughout their life-spans,\u201d says study senior author <a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/MSE\/people\/ptProfile?resource_id=126678\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Shriram Ramanathan<\/a>, an electrical engineer and materials scientist at Purdue University, in West Lafayette, Ind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An adaptable new device can transform into all the key electric components needed for artificial-intelligence hardware, for potential use in robotics and autonomous systems, a new study finds. Brain-inspired or \u201cneuromorphic\u201d computer hardware aims to mimic the human brain\u2019s exceptional ability to adaptively learn from experience and rapidly process information in an extraordinarily energy-efficient manner. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151724","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=151724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}