{"id":219112,"date":"2025-07-31T04:23:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T09:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/liquid-droplets-trained-to-play-tic-tac-toe"},"modified":"2025-07-31T04:23:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T09:23:16","slug":"liquid-droplets-trained-to-play-tic-tac-toe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/liquid-droplets-trained-to-play-tic-tac-toe","title":{"rendered":"Liquid droplets trained to play tic-tac-toe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/liquid-droplets-trained-to-play-tic-tac-toe.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Artificial intelligence and high-performance computing are driving up the demand for massive sources of energy. But neuromorphic computing, which aims to mimic the structure and function of the human brain, could present a new paradigm for energy-efficient computing.<\/p>\n<p>To this end, researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) created a droplet-based platform that uses ions to perform simple neuromorphic computations. Using its ability to retain <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/short-term+memory\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">short-term memory<\/a>, the team trained the droplet system to recognize handwritten digits and play tic-tac-toe. The work was published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.adv6603\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Science Advances<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The authors were inspired by the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/human+brain\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">human brain<\/a>, which computes with ions instead of electrons. Ions move through fluids, and moving them may require less energy than moving electrons in solid-state devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence and high-performance computing are driving up the demand for massive sources of energy. But neuromorphic computing, which aims to mimic the structure and function of the human brain, could present a new paradigm for energy-efficient computing. To this end, researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) created a droplet-based platform that uses ions [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219112","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}