{"id":202260,"date":"2024-12-23T23:09:25","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T05:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/new-study-finds-a-single-neuron-is-a-surprisingly-complex-little-computer"},"modified":"2024-12-23T23:09:25","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T05:09:25","slug":"new-study-finds-a-single-neuron-is-a-surprisingly-complex-little-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/new-study-finds-a-single-neuron-is-a-surprisingly-complex-little-computer","title":{"rendered":"New Study Finds a Single Neuron Is a Surprisingly Complex Little Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3LQLCqHT5Ws?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Scientists know biological neurons are more complex than the artificial neurons employed in deep learning algorithms, but it\u2019s an open question just how much more complex.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0896627321005018?dgcid=author\">fascinating paper<\/a> published recently in the journal <em>Neuron<\/em>, a team of researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem tried to get us a little closer to an answer. While they expected the results would show biological neurons are more complex\u2014they were surprised at just how much more complex they actually are.<\/p>\n<p>In the study, the team found it took a five-to eight-layer neural network, or nearly 1,000 artificial neurons, to mimic the behavior of a single biological neuron from the brain\u2019s cortex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists know biological neurons are more complex than the artificial neurons employed in deep learning algorithms, but it\u2019s an open question just how much more complex. In a fascinating paper published recently in the journal Neuron, a team of researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem tried to get us a little closer to an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202260","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=202260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}