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I find that neuromorphic chips are in this awkward valley where they aren’t trying to be state of the art machine learning systems (TPUs and GPUs do ML much bet
by aoeusnth1 9y ago
I find that neuromorphic chips are in this awkward valley where they aren’t trying to be state of the art machine learning systems (TPUs and GPUs do ML much better), but they’re also not trying to emulate biology faithfully. I think experimenting with new hardware and technologies is great, and I hope we discover something really useful from these. Still, I cant help but wonder whether they should be more focused in either practicality or pure science.
- mtgx 9y agoI guess one focus would be "extreme energy efficiency". Start from that point and solve the performance aspect later.
- crusso 9y agoBut there are people working on the pure science of learning how the brain works. Taking bits and pieces of strategies, chemicals, or structures found in nature and adapting them to other technologies has a long history of success. If I had some bitcoins to bet, I'd put them on these emulated brain/neuron-on-a-chip techniques when it comes to our pursuit of general purpose AI.