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I don't get the appeal of neuromorphic spiking chips even in academia. We don't have a definite , final spiking neuron model, and these architectures are too co

I don't get the appeal of neuromorphic spiking chips even in academia. We don't have a definite , final spiking neuron model, and these architectures are too constrained to use them for finding it. We also have very few real-world applications for spiking neurons that exceed their ANN counterparts. There are multiple groups working on them and apparently are racing to compete with each other, but for all of them, the cart is before the horse.

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burning_hamster 8y ago
> We also have very few real-world applications for spiking neurons that exceed their ANN counterparts. You are being generous. "Zero" does not qualify for "few". On a more serious note: > I don't get the appeal of neuromorphic spiking chips even in academia. We don't have a definite , final spiking neuron model, and these architectures are too constrained to use them for finding it. I think at the moment there are some people that simply want to grab a bunch of the IP rights and position themselves in the hardware market. I think they know that their networks are not up to scratch yet, but they also believe that somebody will figure out how to implement backprop in a spiking network soon, and then they are in a good position to build something worthwhile. On the theory side, there are some papers coming pretty darn close that have come out in the last year.