{"id":24459,"date":"2016-04-08T17:31:34","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T00:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/ibms-brain-inspired-chip-truenorth-changes-how-computers-think-but-experts-question-its-purpose"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:02:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:02:57","slug":"ibms-brain-inspired-chip-truenorth-changes-how-computers-think-but-experts-question-its-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/ibms-brain-inspired-chip-truenorth-changes-how-computers-think-but-experts-question-its-purpose","title":{"rendered":"IBM\u2019s brain-inspired chip TrueNorth changes how computers \u2018think,\u2019 but experts question its purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ibms-brain-inspired-chip-truenorth-changes-how-computers-think-but-experts-question-its-purpose.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I see great potential for the TrueNorth chip as we migrate towards Quantum &amp; Singularity. TrueNorth is an interim chip that assists researchers, engineers, etc. in their efforts to mimic the human brain\u2019s nuero sensors and processing for robotics, BMI technology, etc.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The new IBM supercomputer chip mimics the human brain by using an architecture with 1 million neurons. Nevertheless, its true purpose remains in question for a project with massive public funding.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/article\/ibms-brain-inspired-chip-truenorth-changes-how-computers-think-but-experts-question-its-purpose\/\">http:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/article\/ibms-brain-inspired-chip...s-purpose\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see great potential for the TrueNorth chip as we migrate towards Quantum &amp; Singularity. TrueNorth is an interim chip that assists researchers, engineers, etc. in their efforts to mimic the human brain\u2019s nuero sensors and processing for robotics, BMI technology, etc. The new IBM supercomputer chip mimics the human brain by using an architecture [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,1617,6,64,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24459","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24459"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67755,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24459\/revisions\/67755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}