IBM have created a micro-computer chip that has been designed to imitate the ability to understand surroundings, make sense of complicated data and respond to stimuli as they happen – characteristics that, until now, have only belonged to the living brain.
IBM said that they are a huge step toward allowing computers to “reason” instead of acting within the limits of their pre-programmed settings. The chips are one of the first steps in a special project that has been dubbed SyNAPSE (Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics).
One of the chips is built around what amounts to over 260,000 programmable synapses while the other contains over 65,000 learning synapses. IBM researchers have used this technology to build a “brain wall” at a lab in San Jose, California. The long-term goal of this to develop a one-square-centimeter chip containing the equivalent of one million neurons and 10 billion synapses.
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