{"id":194071,"date":"2024-08-05T10:32:46","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T15:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/mit-claims-new-artificial-neuron-1-million-times-faster-than-the-real-thing"},"modified":"2024-08-05T10:32:46","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T15:32:46","slug":"mit-claims-new-artificial-neuron-1-million-times-faster-than-the-real-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/mit-claims-new-artificial-neuron-1-million-times-faster-than-the-real-thing","title":{"rendered":"MIT Claims New Artificial Neuron 1 Million Times Faster Than the Real Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mit-claims-new-artificial-neuron-1-million-times-faster-than-the-real-thing2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Think and you\u2019ll miss it: researchers at MIT claim to have successfully created analog synapses that are one million times faster than those in our human brains.<\/p>\n<p>Just as digital processors need transistors, analog ones need programmable resistors. Once put into the right configuration, these resistors can be used to create a network of analog synapses and neurons, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2022\/analog-deep-learning-ai-computing-0728\" class=\"\">press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These analog synapses aren\u2019t just ultra-fast, they\u2019re remarkably efficient, too. And that\u2019s pretty important, because as digital neural networks grow more advanced and powerful, they require more and more energy, <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/ai-carbon-footprint\" class=\"\">increasing their carbon footprint considerably<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think and you\u2019ll miss it: researchers at MIT claim to have successfully created analog synapses that are one million times faster than those in our human brains. Just as digital processors need transistors, analog ones need programmable resistors. Once put into the right configuration, these resistors can be used to create a network of analog [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194071","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}