IBM creates chip that mimics the brain
At IBM, described the development of a new computer architecture that works similarly to the basic principles of the functioning of the human brain. The unit of IBM Research are talking about creating a prototype of so-called neyrosinapticheskih chips, as well as new software ecosystem for them. At IBM, said that today's processors in computers are quite different from the principle of the human brain, which is why the simulation of brain processes on modern supercomputers is going so slowly.
The company hopes that its new neyrosinapticheskie chips will make a breakthrough in this field and will serve as the foundation for a a new generation of applications which, by their logic will be similar to artificial intelligence and will to create computer systems that will truly look like people. These solutions will be able to think for yourself, create logical solutions, as well as getting their own knowledge and use them to the cognitive process.
"We are already working on the language Fortran neyrosinapticheskih chips" - said a senior project director Dharmendar EHPM. "While these chips - this is only a small aides current processors, but in the future they will give us a fundamental new opportunities and technological advances that can be obtained through the network neyrosinapticheskih cores" - he says. EHPM says that the basis of such chips is system is an ultra-threaded and highly parallel computing, as well as unusual cognitive architecture that simulates the work of neurons and synapses in the brain.
At IBM, said that, in practice, these chips work on "brain-like model", respectively, they can support a wide range of calculations related to decision making, forecasting and multi-dimensional analysis. Finally, IBM is going to equip their chips neyrosinapticheskie ten billion neurons and hundred trillion synapses, while "artificial brain" will consume no more than 1 kW of electricity and have a volume comparable to the volume of real adult brain.
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