{"id":189167,"date":"2024-05-11T11:33:41","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T16:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/brain-inspired-computer-approaches-brain-like-size"},"modified":"2024-05-11T11:33:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T16:33:41","slug":"brain-inspired-computer-approaches-brain-like-size","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/brain-inspired-computer-approaches-brain-like-size","title":{"rendered":"Brain-Inspired Computer Approaches Brain-Like Size"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brain-inspired-computer-approaches-brain-like-size.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Human Brain as Supercomputer<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Brain-emulating computers hold the promise of vastly lower energy computation and better performance on certain tasks. \u201cThe human brain is the most advanced supercomputer in the universe, and it consumes only 20 watts to achieve things that artificial intelligence systems today only dream of,\u201d says Hector Gonzalez, cofounder and co-CEO of SpiNNcloud Systems. \u201cWe\u2019re basically trying to bridge the gap between brain inspiration and artificial systems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Aside from sheer size, a distinguishing feature of the SpiNNaker2 system is its flexibility. Traditionally, most <a href=\"https:\/\/builtin.com\/artificial-intelligence\/neuromorphic-computing\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">neuromorphic computers<\/a> emulate the brain\u2019s spiking nature: Neurons fire off electrical spikes to communicate with the neurons around them. The actual mechanism of these spikes in the brain is quite complex, and neuromorphic hardware often implements a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Biological_neuron_model#:~:text=Biological%20neuron%20models%2C%20also%20known, potentials%2C%20across%20a%20neural%20network.\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">specific simplified model<\/a>. The SpiNNaker2 can implement a broad range of such models however, as they are not hardwired into its architecture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human Brain as Supercomputer Brain-emulating computers hold the promise of vastly lower energy computation and better performance on certain tasks. \u201cThe human brain is the most advanced supercomputer in the universe, and it consumes only 20 watts to achieve things that artificial intelligence systems today only dream of,\u201d says Hector Gonzalez, cofounder and co-CEO of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189167","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=189167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}