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Renegade:
Embrace your infant overlords! :P

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2720004/IBM-develops-computer-chip-one-million-neurons-functions-like-human-brain.html


* TrueNorth is being hailed as the world’s first neurosynaptic computer chip because it can figure things out on its own
* Modern processors have 1.4 bn transistors and consume up to 140 watts but the IBM chip contains 5.4 bn transistors and uses just 70 milliwatts
* Richard Doherty, the research director of tech research firm Envisioneering Group, hailed IBM's chip as a ‘really big deal’
IBM has developed a computer chip which it says will function like a human brain in a giant step forward for artificial intelligence.

TrueNorth is being hailed as the world’s first neurosynaptic computer chip because it can figure things out on its own.

The chip also has one million ‘neurons’ and could cram the same power as a super computer into a circuit the size of a postage stamp.

IBM's TrueNorth processor could enable a wide variety of applications based on the human brain's computing power. For instance, it could help assist vision-impaired people to navigate through an environment

Experts said that it was as big an advance as the advent of supercomputers in the 1980.

Horst Simon, deputy director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, told the New York Times: ‘It is a remarkable achievement in terms of scalability and low power consumption’.

Modern processors have some 1.4 billion transistors and consume up to 140 watts but the IBM chip contains 5.4 billion transistors and uses just 70 milliwatts of power, meaning it is incredibly efficient.

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More about your new masters at the link! :P

kunkel321:
Hopefully they can combine this new technology with those self-replicating 3D printers...   :P

Renegade:
Hopefully they can combine this new technology with those self-replicating 3D printers...   :P
-kunkel321 (August 13, 2014, 11:17 AM)
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You mean like Replicators from Star Gate? :D

MilesAhead:
It would've been funnier if it said "Richard Doherty, the former research director of tech research firm Envisioneering Group(he has since been replaced by the prototype) said..."

MilesAhead:
Hmm, if a chip has more than a million neurons does that make it a moron?

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