> 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 "fe

> 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.