Almaden in the News: IBM Cognitive Computing

Researchers at IBM made big news on August 18 with a recent cognitive computing development, showcasing the first non-programmed chips that emulate the human brain's ability for action, perception, sensation and reaction. Visit www.ibm.com/synapse for more information.

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Science & Technology

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• cognitive computing
• ibm
• research

[fssapparti]

soon sara connor will come haha poor IBM

[manmitch]

@dankbot420 It's just a spiking neural network with synaptic time dependent plasticity implemented in hardware. The difference is that since it's implemented in hardware, you get a power savings factor of about 1/1000, and you could potentially fabricate them in larger arrays than you would be able to simulate.

[jegej18]

Oh its soooo cute lolz I wonder what else this technology could evolve too :)

[lopside0]

I'm eager to learn more about the research, but this video was not especially informative.. first the obnoxious and astonishingly long intro music, then a bunch of superficial news clips edited together. They seriously couldn't just sit down an engineer and talk about the research for 5 minutes? Awful video.

[dooberry20]

@punchthedog omg your comment made me laugh the entire video!

[GeekProdigyGuy]

@dankbot420 Unfortunately, it doesn't seem IBM has released much information other than the standard press release. From what's available, it's probably more than just a neural network, in that each neuron is a bit more complex than the software simulation (how? idk) and also that it has, assumably, dynamic input/output without requiring explicit programming. Other than those few quirks, though, it pretty much seems to be a hardware (more efficient) implementation of a neural network.

[punchthedog]

What is being scanned at 3:45??!! A she-male with a 15 inch schlong!!

[Trion01]

Is this the intro from Terminator 5 ?? :DDD

[GodEquals3]

weeeeeee

and WHAT IF we could improve our own brains capacity? sounds good to me : )

A.I. will offer the biggest boom in knowledge ever, it´s gona be huge...

[Cabia2425]

Can I have one?