{"id":35223,"date":"2017-03-09T22:43:55","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T06:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/the-future-of-ai-is-neuromorphic-meet-the-scientists-building-digital-brains-for-your-phone"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:28:41","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:28:41","slug":"the-future-of-ai-is-neuromorphic-meet-the-scientists-building-digital-brains-for-your-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/the-future-of-ai-is-neuromorphic-meet-the-scientists-building-digital-brains-for-your-phone","title":{"rendered":"The future of AI is neuromorphic. Meet the scientists building digital \u2018brains\u2019 for your phone"},"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\/P_WRCyNQ9KY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>AI services like Apple\u2019s Siri and others operate by sending your queries to faraway data centers, which send back responses. The reason they rely on cloud-based computing is that today\u2019s electronics don\u2019t come with enough computing power to run the processing-heavy algorithms needed for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/topic\/machine-learning\">machine learning<\/a>. The typical CPUs most smartphones use could never handle a system like Siri on the device. But Dr. Chris Eliasmith, a theoretical neuroscientist and co-CEO of Canadian AI startup <a href=\"http:\/\/appliedbrainresearch.com\/\">Applied Brain Research<\/a>, is confident that a new type of chip is about to change that.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/article\/ai-neuromorphic-chips-brains\">http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/article\/ai-neuromorphic-chips-brains<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI services like Apple\u2019s Siri and others operate by sending your queries to faraway data centers, which send back responses. The reason they rely on cloud-based computing is that today\u2019s electronics don\u2019t come with enough computing power to run the processing-heavy algorithms needed for machine learning. The typical CPUs most smartphones use could never handle [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35223","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\/423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35223"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56740,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35223\/revisions\/56740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}