{"id":35447,"date":"2017-03-19T01:02:33","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T08:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/new-artificial-synapse-bridges-the-gap-to-brain-like-computers"},"modified":"2017-04-24T18:44:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T01:44:38","slug":"new-artificial-synapse-bridges-the-gap-to-brain-like-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/new-artificial-synapse-bridges-the-gap-to-brain-like-computers","title":{"rendered":"New Artificial Synapse Bridges the Gap to Brain-Like Computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-artificial-synapse-bridges-the-gap-to-brain-like-computers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/12\/22\/how-to-train-ai-to-do-everything-in-the-digital-universe\/\">AlphaGo\u2019s historic victory<\/a> against world champion Lee Sedol to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2017\/03\/artificial-intelligence-goes-deep-beat-humans-poker\">DeepStack\u2019s sweeping win<\/a> against professional poker players, artificial intelligence is clearly on a roll.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the momentum comes from breakthroughs in artificial neural networks, which loosely mimic the multi-layer structure of the human brain. But that\u2019s where the similarity ends. While the brain can hum along on energy only enough to power <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nmat\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/nmat4870.html\">a light bulb<\/a>, AlphaGo\u2019s neural network runs on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/AlphaGo#Hardware\">a whopping 1,920 CPUs and 280 GPUs<\/a>, with a total power consumption of roughly one million watts\u201450,000 times more than its biological counterpart.<\/p>\n<p>Extrapolate those numbers, and it\u2019s easy to see that artificial neural networks have a serious problem\u2014even if scientists design powerfully intelligent machines, they may demand too much energy to be practical for everyday use.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2017\/03\/15\/new-artificial-synapse-bridges-the-gap-to-brain-like-computers\/\">https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2017\/03\/15\/new-artificial-synapse...computers\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AlphaGo\u2019s historic victory against world champion Lee Sedol to DeepStack\u2019s sweeping win against professional poker players, artificial intelligence is clearly on a roll. Part of the momentum comes from breakthroughs in artificial neural networks, which loosely mimic the multi-layer structure of the human brain. But that\u2019s where the similarity ends. While the brain can [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35447","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=35447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48472,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35447\/revisions\/48472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}