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To me, this is one the most important news items this year. I've been excited about memristors since I first heard about them, and this sounds like an excellent
by xyproto 6y ago
To me, this is one the most important news items this year. I've been excited about memristors since I first heard about them, and this sounds like an excellent application.
These single device "neurons" also hints of things to come. Even larger neural nets with more efficient structures may, perhaps, cross a threshold in terms of what it can learn and express. I'm thinking Alpha Go Zero and beyond.
I believe this is only the start of this type of hardware.
- sillysaurusx 6y agoI've heard about memristors for ... a decade? ... so I'm skeptical. What makes "this time different"? They were going to revolutionize the speed of data access, right? https://past.date-conference.com/proceedings-archive/2017/pdf/7095.pdf https://past.date-conference.com/proceedings-archive/2017/pd... Making them behave like neurons is a cool hack, but sort of tangential to why anyone cares about memristors. I keep an open mind though, so if this time really is different, then that's valid. It just seems like more hype.
- Judgmentality 6y agoI was also very interested in memristors when I first discovered them over 10 years ago. I actually wanted to go to graduate school to work on them, but was surprisingly unlucky in finding willing advisors with funding. In fact I even personally knew one of the researchers at HP and asked about working there, and he basically told me "you should do something else with your life." > I believe this is only the start of this type of hardware. I agree, but I also suspect a pragmatic solution is still decades away, much like nuclear fusion. Of course I no longer follow this area closely and could be completely wrong.