>The silver network “emerged spontaneously,” said Todd Hylton, the former manager of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program that supported early

>The silver network “emerged spontaneously,” said Todd Hylton, the former manager of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program that supported early stages of the project. I'm torn as to whether the article was intentionally editorialized to be mildly disconcerting, or if it actually is. Setting aside the seemingly perfect Skynet quote for a moment: this a substrate that self-organizes itself in response to electrical input—it displays emergent behavior in similar fashion to the human brain—and it does so while consuming an amount of power that's far closer to the brain than modern integrated circuits computing the same task. I have a couple of questions: 1. The research sounds like it's been ongoing for quite a long time. What's preventing the creation of larger-scale silver nanowire meshes? Or networking many 2x2mm meshes together at ridiculous scale? 2. What's the latency like between the artificial synapses? As far as I'm aware, synaptic latency in the human brain is on the order of milliseconds. Meanwhile latency in traditional ICs is on the order of nanoseconds if not picoseconds.