Microchip mimics the human brain
In a breakthrough, Swiss scientists have developed a novel new microchip that works just like a human brain and exhibits cognitive abilities.
No computer works as efficiently as the human brain — so much so that building an artificial brain is the goal of many scientists, researchers said.
Researchers from the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich in Switzerland have now made a “breakthrough” in this direction by understanding how to configure so-called neuromorphic chips to imitate the brain’s information processing abilities in real-time.
They demonstrated this by building an artificial sensory processing system that exhibits cognitive abilities.
Most approaches in neuroinformatics are limited to the development of neural network models on conventional computers or aim to simulate complex nerve networks on supercomputers.
Few pursue the Zurich researchers’ approach to develop electronic circuits that are comparable to a real brain in terms of size, speed, and energy consumption, researchers said. “Our goal is to emulate the properties of biological neurons and synapses directly on microchips,” said professor Giacomo Indiveri.
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