{"id":75529,"date":"2018-01-23T21:42:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T05:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/mit-engineers-have-designed-a-chip-that-behaves-just-like-brain-cell-connections"},"modified":"2018-01-23T21:42:32","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T05:42:32","slug":"mit-engineers-have-designed-a-chip-that-behaves-just-like-brain-cell-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/mit-engineers-have-designed-a-chip-that-behaves-just-like-brain-cell-connections","title":{"rendered":"MIT Engineers Have Designed a Chip That Behaves Just Like Brain Cell Connections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mit-engineers-have-designed-a-chip-that-behaves-just-like-brain-cell-connections.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For those working in the field of advanced artificial intelligence, getting a computer to simulate brain activity is a gargantuan task, but it may be easier to manage if the hardware is designed more like brain hardware to start with.<\/p>\n<p>This emerging field is called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/article\/ai-neuromorphic-chips-brains\">neuromorphic computing<\/a>. And now engineers at MIT may have overcome a significant hurdle \u2014 the design of a chip with artificial synapses.<\/p>\n<p>For now, human brains are much more powerful than any computer \u2014 they contain around 80 billion neurons, and over 100 trillion synapses connecting them and controlling the passage of signals.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/mit-engineers-design-test-artificial-synapse-neural-network-ai\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/mit-engineers-design-test-artifi...network-ai<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those working in the field of advanced artificial intelligence, getting a computer to simulate brain activity is a gargantuan task, but it may be easier to manage if the hardware is designed more like brain hardware to start with. This emerging field is called neuromorphic computing. And now engineers at MIT may have overcome [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75529","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}