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Well, none of those chips are brain-like at all. For example, TrueNorth is fully digital, it uses separate compute/memory blocks, signal multiplexing, signal en
by p1esk 10y ago
Well, none of those chips are brain-like at all. For example, TrueNorth is fully digital, it uses separate compute/memory blocks, signal multiplexing, signal encoding, routing protocols, instruction set, etc, none of which is in any way related to what brain is doing. What makes you think it's "neuromorphic"?
Whether you like it or not, get used to people calling their hardware ANN implementations "neuromorphic".
- return0 10y agoNope, neuromorphic means the hardware would simulate the neurobiology, not ANNs. More practically, they would never publish in Science if their title was "printing ANNs in hardware".
- p1esk 10y agoTrueNorth hardware, as I illustrated, does not resemble neurobiology at all. There are no brain-like components there, on any level. Moreover, it can run ANN algorithms just as easily as more "neuromorphic" algorithms. Pointing to how they chose to name it for publication is not exactly a very convincing argument to support your view, is it? :)
- return0 10y agoMy view is they 're useless. i don't get your point, sorry.
- p1esk 10y agoMy point is architectures like TrueNorth are very impressive from the point of view of a computer engineer, and they are very efficient when running their intended applications (neural network algorithms). The fact that they are not "brain-like" does not make them any less impressive.
- return0 10y ago> very impressive from the point of view of a computer engineer Maybe, i suppose as much as a bitcoin ASIC is.