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It's clear that you can get some actual neurons in a dish to behave as an artifical neuron network. It is a fascinating concept as a research question. What's n
by epups 3y ago
It's clear that you can get some actual neurons in a dish to behave as an artifical neuron network. It is a fascinating concept as a research question. What's not clear is what is the business value here - do they expect these natural networks to outperform ANNs for any foreseeable application?
- freilanzer 3y agoScience does not need a business value.
- px43 3y agoYeah, power-performance is a big one. The entire human brain runs at about 12 watts. Human neurons are several orders of magnitude more efficient for neural computing than anything that's been dreamt up in silicon. That might not always be the case, but I imagine there are still another several orders of magnitude at least that artificial neurons might fill as this technology evolves. Imagine something like a Raspberry Pi with a neural network mounted on it that is significantly more powerful than an h100.
- epups 3y agoThe brain might need only 12W, but I guarantee you that their setup maintaining 10 orders of magnitude fewer neurons in a dish is already using far more than that. I get that brains are far more efficient than computers. What I'm wondering is how a business case can be made today for even considering an approach like this.