{"id":176173,"date":"2023-11-16T17:24:23","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T23:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/mind-in-the-machine"},"modified":"2023-11-16T17:24:23","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T23:24:23","slug":"mind-in-the-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/mind-in-the-machine","title":{"rendered":"Mind in the machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mind-in-the-machine.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2018Neural networks today are about as similar to a brain as an airplane is to a bird.\u2019 \u2014 Kwabena Boahen, PhD, professor of bioengineering and of electrical engineering One problem, as Boahen sees it, is that AI relies on a \u201csynaptocentric\u201d mode of computing, in that half of the nodes \u2014 lines of binary\u2026<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Do nerve cells hold the key to an epic advance in computing?<\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/stanmed.stanford.edu\/author\/john-sanford\/\">John Sanford<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photography by Misha Gravenor.<\/p>\n<p>Kwabena Boahen, PhD, a professor of bioengineering and of electrical engineering, right, and H.-S. Philip Wong, PhD, professor of electrical engineering and the Willard R. and Inez Kerr Bell Professor in the School of Engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Neural networks today are about as similar to a brain as an airplane is to a bird.\u2019 \u2014 Kwabena Boahen, PhD, professor of bioengineering and of electrical engineering One problem, as Boahen sees it, is that AI relies on a \u201csynaptocentric\u201d mode of computing, in that half of the nodes \u2014 lines of binary\u2026 Do [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176173","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\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}