{"id":21728,"date":"2016-02-07T00:47:21","date_gmt":"2016-02-07T08:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/darpas-new-neural-microchip-could-let-drones-think-like-a-human"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:12:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:12:36","slug":"darpas-new-neural-microchip-could-let-drones-think-like-a-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/darpas-new-neural-microchip-could-let-drones-think-like-a-human","title":{"rendered":"DARPA\u2019s New \u2018Neural\u2019 Microchip Could Let Drones Think Like a Human"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/darpas-new-neural-microchip-could-let-drones-think-like-a-human.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFull exploitation of this information is a major challenge,\u201d officials with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) wrote in a 2009 brief on \u201cdeep learning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHuman observation and analysis of [intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance] assets is essential, but the training of humans is both expensive and time-consuming. Human performance also varies due to individuals\u2019 capabilities and training, fatigue, boredom, and human attentional capacity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Working with a team of researchers at MIT, DARPA is hoping to take all of that human know-how and shrink it down into processing unit no bigger than your cellphone, using a microchip known as \u201cEyeriss.\u201d The concept relies on \u201cneural networks;\u201d computerized memory networks based on the workings of the human brain.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sputniknews.com\/us\/20160206\/1034319282\/darpa-neural-microship-eyeriss.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFull exploitation of this information is a major challenge,\u201d officials with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) wrote in a 2009 brief on \u201cdeep learning.\u201d \u201cHuman observation and analysis of [intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance] assets is essential, but the training of humans is both expensive and time-consuming. Human performance also varies due to individuals\u2019 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1488,9,47,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-drones","category-military","category-neuroscience","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21728","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21728"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68568,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21728\/revisions\/68568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}