{"id":83296,"date":"2018-10-04T17:02:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T00:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/a-new-brain-inspired-architecture-could-improve-how-computers-handle-data-and-advance-ai"},"modified":"2018-10-07T17:03:47","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T00:03:47","slug":"a-new-brain-inspired-architecture-could-improve-how-computers-handle-data-and-advance-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/a-new-brain-inspired-architecture-could-improve-how-computers-handle-data-and-advance-ai","title":{"rendered":"A new brain-inspired architecture could improve how computers handle data and advance AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-brain-inspired-architecture-could-improve-how-computers-handle-data-and-advance-ai.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>General interest.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>IBM researchers are developing a new computer architecture, better equipped to handle increased data loads from artificial intelligence. Their designs draw on concepts from the human brain and significantly outperform conventional computers in comparative studies. They report on their recent findings in the Journal of Applied Physics.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s computers are built on the von Neumann architecture, developed in the 1940s. Von Neumann computing systems feature a central processer that executes logic and arithmetic, a memory unit, storage, and input and output devices. Unlike the stovepipe components in conventional computers, the authors propose that brain-inspired computers could have coexisting processing and memory units.<\/p>\n<p>Abu Sebastian, an author on the paper, explained that executing certain <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/computational+tasks\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">computational tasks<\/a> in the computer\u2019s memory would increase the system\u2019s efficiency and save energy.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-10-brain-inspired-architecture-advance-ai.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;10-brain-inspired-architecture-advance-ai.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General interest. IBM researchers are developing a new computer architecture, better equipped to handle increased data loads from artificial intelligence. Their designs draw on concepts from the human brain and significantly outperform conventional computers in comparative studies. They report on their recent findings in the Journal of Applied Physics. Today\u2019s computers are built on the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":472,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83296","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\/472"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83426,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83296\/revisions\/83426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}