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Neurosynaptic computing chips offer potentially dramatic efficiencies.
Skynet!
Moose with actual intelligence!! :surprised:
I don't know many details on the IBM chip yet, but another interesting project is Spinnaker, headed up by Manchester Uni's Prof. Steve Furber.
http://apt.cs.man.ac.uk/projects/SpiNNaker/
It's effectively a whole lot of chips, each with a bunch of ARM cores, and a network topology and messaging protocol that mimics neurological behaviour.
I played with the same sorts of things at York:
http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/arch/neural-networks/theory
I used an artificial neural network in my MEng project, but this stuff is a bit different - rather than simulating neural networks in software, it's architecting hardware that behaves in the same or a similar way.
This is interesting, because if we can truly exploit neural network-based architectures, then we can make things supermassively parrallel and pretty much completely asynchronous... which would be nice.