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I'm not convinced that spiking behavior is all that's needed to really emulate what's going on in our neurons. Modern hardware designs are not really amenable

I'm not convinced that spiking behavior is all that's needed to really emulate what's going on in our neurons. Modern hardware designs are not really amenable to replicating the number or structure of synapses that we have, muchless the extremely complicated biochemistry that controls how and when they fire. It's good to see progress being made, but we really need to tone down the hyperbole in the popular scientific press.

Balgair 6y ago
No, they mean that the memristor acts like the synapse. It was the last remaining basic two wire circuit element (the others being the resistor, capacitor, and inductor). We could model cells, up to the memristive portion, entirely with basic circuit components (albeit in very complicated arrangements). We were missing that part of our bits boxes. Now we aren't, well, sorta. It'll be a while before we get these in our hands. Also, these things are a bit bigger than just modern hardware. It's as if you just added a new primary color to Bob Ross; everything changes. We're going to need to redesign computers from the electrical-engineering-ground up. Well maybe, it'll be a few years (hopefully not decades)