IBM Develops TrueNorth Computer Chip That Functions Like Human Brain, Might be Rise of Artificial Intelligence

IBM has just unveiled a futuristic computer chip that is claimed to function like a human brain, called TrueNorth. It's technically the world's first neurosynaptic computer chip because it can figure things out on its own. This chip purportedly has one million 'neurons' and "could cram the same power as a super computer into a circuit the size of a postage stamp," says The Daily Mail.

Modern processors have some 1.4 billion transistors and consume up to 140 watts but the new postage samp-sized IBM chip contains 5.4 billion transistors, and uses just 70 milliwatts of power, meaning it is incredibly efficient. That's not all, "TrueNorth will use closely interconnected 'neurons' just like the brain does meaning that it can work proactively to a level not seen before," according to The Daily Mail.

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Japanese Researchers Develop Artificial Brain That Uses the Internet to Learn New Things

We have seen the future of artificial intelligence, and they're plugged into the world wide web. Researchers at Japan's Tokyo Institute of Technology, led by Dr. Osamu Hasegawa, unveils SOINN, an artificial brain that actually uses the internet learn and perform new tasks.

With previous methods, for example, face recognition by digital cameras, it's necessary to teach the system quite a lot of things about faces. When subjects become diverse, it's very difficult for people to tell the system what sort of characteristics they have, and how many features are sufficient to recognize things. SOINN can pick those features out for itself. It doesn't need models, which is a very big advantage.

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