IBM's new processing cores combine digital "neurons" and "synapses" - for a self-learning computer system that does not require prior programming
IBM has unveiled a new generation of experimental computer chips that mimic the perceptual capabilities of the human brain, its ways of working and the processes of consciousness.
IBM's new technology may make it possible to build computer systems that will consume tens of thousands less electricity and space - compared to the computers we know today.
IBM's new neuro-synaptic computing chips are a sharp departure from the traditional concepts of designing and building computer systems. The new chips create an electronic equivalent to the operation of neurons and synapses in biological systems such as the brain. This comparison is made possible thanks to the use of sophisticated algorithms and silicon circuits with a new design. Two new prototypes of such chips have already been manufactured by IBM and are now in testing processes.
Cognitive computers, which will be built around the new IBM chips, will not be programmed in the same traditional way known today in the world of information systems. Instead of such programming, cognitive computers are expected to learn from experience, identify connections and correlations, present hypotheses, remember to learn and draw lessons from the results. In fact, this process mimics the way the human brain works and the learning processes we are familiar with.
In order to meet these tasks, IBM's researchers and developers combine principles from the world of nanotechnology, brain research and supercomputing. The project is also partially funded by a new grant from DARPA - the research body of the American defense system - for a scalable electronic system with self-adaptive neuromorphic morphology SyNAPSE (Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics).
The SyNAPSE project is designed to build a system capable of not only analyzing complex information received from a large number of sensor units and external sources - but also dynamically organizing its internal wiring routes, based on interaction with the environment, in processes parallel to those in which the brain manages to learn and change behavior patterns using a level low energy.
IBM's current project goes far beyond the concept outlined by von Neumann, one of the designers of the computer architecture that has dominated the computing world for the past fifty years. Future computing applications are expected to require functional flexibility that is not offered in traditional systems familiar to us. The new chips are an important step in the development of computers from calculation systems to learning systems. They herald the beginning of a new generation of computers - and new applications of these computers in the world of business, science and government.
Although IBM's new chips do not incorporate biological components, the prototypes of IBM's cognitive processors use silicon circuits inspired by the world of brain research. Thus, it is possible to build what IBM calls a "neuro-synaptic core". This includes an integrated memory equivalent to that of the synapses in the human brain, along with a processing capacity equivalent to that of the neurons, and communication equivalent to that of the axons in the brain.
As mentioned, IBM has already created two prototypes of such chips. Two such processing cores. The two cores are manufactured using silicon technology on an insulator, with a separation of 0.45 microns, and each contain 256 neurons. One core offers 262,144 programmable synapses, and the other 65,536 learnable synapses. The IBM development team has already successfully demonstrated simple applications running on top of these cores such as navigation, machine vision, uniform pattern recognition, associative memory and group sorting.
The long-term goal that IBM is striving for is to build a chip system that will include ten billion neurons and hundreds of millions of synapses - and consume only a single kilowatt of electricity and a total volume of less than two liters.
Future chips could process data from complex environments that characterize the real world through a wide variety of sensors - and act in different ways in order to reach a coordinated and context-dependent response pattern.
Thus, for example, cognitive systems that monitor climate data for the purpose of long-term water supply planning could analyze the data received from the field regarding temperature, barometric pressure, tidal variables - and predict the changes in precipitation and the needs of the water systems on the one hand, as well as generate tsunami warnings on the other hand. Similarly, traffic lights will be able to monitor traffic data at the intersection in order to adjust their activity cycles to actual loads, and adjust themselves repeatedly with any change in traffic.
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Avi,
This is not New Age. This is a complete lack of understanding about anything.
John, sorry but I must be weak in New Age. what did you mean?
Hey friends
You know that someone in our world can connect a lot of terrible things to the Internet, such as a bomb that is placed on a main water pipe in the world with the help of some small helicopter, for example, and he can actually connect it to all of us, and whoever accidentally presses the activation button of this bomb can even appear as an icon on the desktop of all the computers in the world The world can go after this person and it can happen to any child or person of any age to me and to whoever is reading these words right now!!! And the best and easiest solution for this is to create self-replicating-robots or a large anesthetic bomb and connect it to the Internet because basically anyone can do this and any other human being can get involved with the whole world like that!!!
Instructions for making self-replicating-robots:
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There is already a nanotechnological engine and you turn it into a simple engine that replicates into some form many times and everything disappears in seconds and quickly without much pain and connect it to the internet and it will be an easy end for all of us
Link to a nanotechnology engine You can search for more information on the net about these engines:
http://www.livescience.com/6969-world-smallest-motor.html
Instructions for making a large anesthetic bomb:
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Just compress huge amounts of anesthetic gas and connect the internet to the whole world
***Another important point, the entire internet is full of instructions for preparing improvised atomic bombs and anyone can connect them to the internet in a second for the whole world and to all cell phones, so it is better to connect self-replicating-robots or an anesthetic bomb and connect to the internet for the whole world
Think that you are always at risk in this world and can get involved in conflicts anywhere in the world if you were to travel there or live there or think also that what happens everywhere can also happen to you every second because you are all in the same place with the same possibilities of being hurt only somewhere else
Also remember that Gilad Shalit can be kidnapped again or get into trouble again in his life and so can each of us!!! who is always exposed to infinite risks because this place is not really predictable as people fall and get up and sometimes fall again
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In conclusion, and most importantly, anyone who comes across the right message, please spread it as much as possible online by any means and in any possible language
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Interesting from A-D. The first step towards robots like in the movies ??? And this is in the days when they announced the filming of a new version of the classic "Blade Runner". exciting.
"In the beginning man created his god...and the robots".
The survival of religion and its adaptation to culture and human life may be nearing its end. horse. There is God and Christ is on the way. He's just lingering in the lab. 🙂
to sparrow….
Religions did not develop on the basis of logical thinking but on systems of myths, anxious beliefs and experiences of various kinds. All these do not exist in computers unless we 'poison their brains'. The philosophical attempts to give a logical justification to the ontology of religion, to provide proof of the existence of God distances us from a true understanding of the anthropological reasons for its appearance. The non-existence of these reasons prevents computers from developing such a 'conclusion' since it is not a conclusion.
Dror Israel:
There is no reason for such computers to come up with stupid thoughts.
Like us - computers - beyond the brain - will also have information available on which the conclusions can be based.
Although they will be able to receive some of the information from us - but even if we become extinct as soon as we turn them on (and it is said that they will be able to roam the world and explore - just like us) - they will see that they are built completely differently from the remains of life that they will find in the ground. They will see that all other life developed in an evolutionary process - but that they themselves were created differently.
They will conclude that probably one of the creatures whose remains they found is the one who developed them.
After all - if we build human-like computers - they don't have to be idiots!
Reinforces what you said - the site was more interesting before the redesign
A very interesting article, as well as many other articles on the site, but recently the design of the site is really bad and makes me not want to return to it 🙁
Suppose in the future they succeed in building a system similar to a complete human brain,
Will this mind from learning come to the conclusion that there is someone who built it and if we assume that it is, will it come to the conclusion that there is a creator for the entire world based on this conclusion
Fascinating article!
my father
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