TrueNorth: Artificial Brain on Chip

[jos]

 

IBM is telling the world about something quite ambitious: TrueNorth's neurons could revolutionize system architecture.

Phase 0 turned into Phase 1, Phase 2, and Phase 3— from neuroscience to supercomputing to a new architecture, to a new programming language to algorithms, applications, and now, new chip, which is TrueNorth. we have shrunk the neurosynaptic core by 15-fold in area and 100-fold in power, and have tiled 4,096 cores via an on-chip network to create TrueNorth—with one million neurons and 256 million synapses.

applications that might result. "The architecture can solve a wide class of problems from vision, audition, and multi-sensory fusion." 

"On one hand, with portable devices: think smart phones, sensor networks, self-driving automobiles, robots, public safety, medical imaging, real-time video analysis, signal processing, olfactory detection, and digital pathology. On the other hand, with synaptic supercomputers: —think multimedia processing on the cloud."

"While current chips are excellent at analyzing information in sequential order, the new 'neuromorphic' types of chips Modha's team are working on are better suited to finding patterns in information—like the right side of the brain."

Traditional chips follow instructions, whereas IBM's new chip manages 'spikes'—rather like spikes in electrical activity in an organic brain," Murphy said.

TrueNorth, with all its comparisons, is not a brain but it is a step toward a digital brain. "Let's be clear: we have not built the brain, or any brain," said Modha in the IBM Research report. "We have built a computer that is inspired by the brain. The inputs to and outputs of this computer are spikes. Functionally, it transforms a spatio-temporal stream of input spikes into a spatio-temporal stream of output spikes."

 

 

Next make left side of the brain...

Source: http://www.wired.com/2015/08/ibms-rodent-brain-chip-make-phones-hyper-smart/

 

 

[qwertywarrior]

the perfect undetectable aimbot 

[LukaP]

the perfect undetectable aimbot 

just a little big, a little slow, and a little power hungry :'D

 

Also probably a little unobtainable, and expensive

[qwertywarrior]

just a little big, a little slow, and a little power hungry :'D

 

Also probably a little unobtainable, and expensive

according to IBM it draws 70 milliwatts of power !

[LukaP]

according to IBM it draws 70 milliwatts of power !

for real? well then take away the power claim, all the others stay

[jos]

for real? well then take away the power claim, all the others stay

Since it supports perfect scaling.. using 48 chips to create 48 million brain cell,, They can do 86 billion... which will make it as powerful as human brain.. But with more advances ...each chips will become more powerful...

[LukaP]

Since it supports perfect scaling.. using 48 chips to create 48 million brain cell,, They can do 86 billion... which will make it as powerful as human brain.. But with more advances ...each chips will become more powerful...

Im still not sold on it being as powerful as the brain (even in theory), but i do agree its a great achievement

[Kurosaki Isshin]

Im still not sold on it being as powerful as the brain (even in theory), but i do agree its a great achievement

I agree. for now, though. they'll continue to tinker and upgrade hardware/software. it should be quite the site to behold in 15 years

[CTR640]

Hopefully this can cure world money problem.

[LukaP]

I agree. for now, though. they'll continue to tinker and upgrade hardware/software. it should be quite the site to behold in 15 years

that i can stand behind yes. imagine this, but using the principles of quantum computing. Theorethically, it could be more powerful than a human brain (i cant even imagine what that means but its true)

[Mo_z_Art]

perfect. hope they get the left side ready before may 2016 so i can take it with me to my a-levels ^^

[kainobean]

whao whao all i read in this is artifical brain and intelegence and think sweeeeet finaly gunna beable to program myself a real girlfriend

 

#foreveralone

[Beskamir]

As soon as I saw right/left brain bs I lost some faith in this project. That said I can't wait to see future development in this area and perhaps one day I might be able to contribute to full AI development.

[rhyseyness]

Title's a bit misleading don't you think?

The article literally says: "Let's be clear: we have not built the brain, or any brain"