{"id":75525,"date":"2018-01-23T09:02:35","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T17:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/artificial-synapses-fill-the-gaps-for-brainier-computer-chips"},"modified":"2018-01-23T09:02:35","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T17:02:35","slug":"artificial-synapses-fill-the-gaps-for-brainier-computer-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/artificial-synapses-fill-the-gaps-for-brainier-computer-chips","title":{"rendered":"Artificial synapses fill the gaps for brainier computer chips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/artificial-synapses-fill-the-gaps-for-brainier-computer-chips.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Right now, you\u2019re carrying around the most powerful computer in existence \u2013 the human brain. This naturally super-efficient machine is far better than anything humans have ever built, so it\u2019s not surprising that scientists are trying to reverse-engineer it. Rather than binary bits of information, <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/neuromorphic-chips\/28586\/\" target=\"_blank\">neuromorphic computers<\/a> are built with networks of artificial neurons, and now an MIT team has developed a more lifelike synapse to better connect those neurons.<\/p>\n<p>For simplicity\u2019s sake, computers process and store information in a binary manner \u2013 everything can be broken down into a series of ones and zeroes. This system has served us well for the better part of a century, but having access to a whole new world of analog \u201cgrey areas\u201d in between could really give computing power a shot in the arm.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/neuromorphic-chip-mit\/53081\/?utm_source=Gizmag+Subscribers&utm_campaign=f0cbe081b2-UA-2235360-4&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_65b67362bd-f0cbe081b2-92825937\">https:\/\/newatlas.com\/neuromorphic-chip-mit\/53081\/?utm_source...5;92825937<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right now, you\u2019re carrying around the most powerful computer in existence \u2013 the human brain. This naturally super-efficient machine is far better than anything humans have ever built, so it\u2019s not surprising that scientists are trying to reverse-engineer it. Rather than binary bits of information, neuromorphic computers are built with networks of artificial neurons, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75525","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}