BRN Discussion Ongoing

[skutza]

Well after using the Tesla now for nearly a week, I have to say they are brilliant. However, it is clear that cameras Mr Musk, are not the future. I didn't buy the car to use autonomous driving I have solar and the car charges basically for free and service in nonexistent. My brakes will last forever as the only time I have used them so far is to change the gear from D to R etc.

How does this relate to BRN, well because Mercedes is going to kill Tesla if Elon doesn't change his ways. In the dark, any pedestrian wearing dark clothes is often not picked up. (found this out at a pedestrian crossing). After not seeing the person I looked at the car screen and it didn't see anyone either. In the dark it didn't pick up my closed front gate (on the screen, sensors did), I assume if it was in autonomous driving we would have hit it? Wasn't willing to risk it . The auto high/low beam is a good idea, but it often gets confused so I've taken that off to manual. One shot learning for this car would be amazing IMO, it could make the experience so much greater. Interaction with the voice commands isn't great as I don't think it understands different ways of saying things. (not intelligent).

I know it sounds like I'm bagging the car after saying I love it, but as you can see it's the small details that could make it so much better. Reading all the LinkedIn posts by Mercedes and their articles, they seem to get it. They have seen where Elon has failed and they are more and ready and willing to be that premium supplier of EV's that "think like you". What I think is, once the fun of the Tesla has worn thin and my childish obsession with getting to 150 in 5 seconds disappears.... the refined driving experience that Mercedes "WILL" achieve, will be a Tesla dominance killer.

Unless of course Elon swallows his pride and rings Sean.

Oh BTW, the steering wheel hasn't come off yet, that's a plus.

 

[Frank Zappa]

Interesting that the article has been ‘woked’ and is gender neutral. No ‘he’ or ‘his’, just ‘they’ and ‘their’. Not that there is anything wrong with that.

If you look carefully at the way the tie has been knotted . That is the new woke style

 

[Fact Finder]

Proposal Number:
21-2- H6.22-1743


Phase 1 Contract #:
80NSSC21C0233


Subtopic Title:
Deep Neural Net and Neuromorphic Processors for In-Space Autonomy and Cognition


Proposal Title:
Neuromorphic Enhanced Cognitive Radio

Small Business Concern​

Firm:

Intellisense Systems, Inc.


Address:

21041 South Western Avenue, Torrance, CA 90501


Phone:

(310) 320-1827

Principal Investigator:​

Name:

Mr. Wenjian Wang Ph.D.


E-mail:

wwang@intellisenseinc.com


Address:

21041 South Western Avenue, CA 90501 - 1727


Phone:

(310) 320-1827

Business Official:​

Name:

Selvy Utama


E-mail:

notify@intellisenseinc.com


Address:

21041 South Western Avenue, CA 90501 - 1727


Phone:

(310) 320-1827

Summary Details:​

Estimated Technology Readiness Level (TRL) :
Begin: 3
End: 4




Technical Abstract (Limit 2000 characters, approximately 200 words):
Intellisense Systems, Inc. proposes in Phase II to advance development of a Neuromorphic Enhanced Cognitive Radio (NECR) device to enable autonomous space operations on platforms constrained by size, weight, and power (SWaP). NECR is a low-size, -weight, and -power (-SWaP) cognitive radio built on the open-source framework, i.e., GNU Radio and RFNoC™, with new enhancements in environment learning and improvements in transmission quality and data processing. Due to the high efficiency of spiking neural networks and their low-latency, energy-efficient implementation on neuromorphic computing hardware, NECR can be integrated into SWaP-constrained platforms in spacecraft and robotics, to provide reliable communication in unknown and uncharacterized space environments such as the Moon and Mars. In Phase II, Intellisense will improve the NECR system for cognitive communication capabilities accelerated by neuromorphic hardware. We will refine the overall NECR system architecture to achieve cognitive communication capabilities accelerated by neuromorphic hardware, on which a special focus will be the mapping, optimization, and implementation of smart sensing algorithms on the neuromorphic hardware. The Phase II smart sensing algorithm library will include Kalman filter, Carrier Frequency Offset estimation, symbol rate estimation, energy detection- and matched filter-based spectrum sensing, signal-to-noise ratio estimation, and automatic modulation identification. These algorithms will be implemented on COTS neuromorphic computing hardware such as Akida processor from BrainChip, and then integrated with radio frequency modules and radiation-hardened packaging into a Phase II prototype. - (Of course any doubt that might have existed as a result of the use of the words "such as Akida" has been obliterated by the wording of the recent partnership announcement "“We are excited to partner with BrainChip and leverage their state-of-the-art neuromorphic technology,” said Frank T. Willis, President and CEO of Intellisense. “By integrating BrainChip’s Akida processor into our cognitive radio solutions, we will be able to provide our customers with an unparalleled level of performance, adaptability and reliability.”)

At the end of Phase II, the prototype will be delivered to NASA for testing and evaluation, along with a plan describing a path to meeting fault and tolerance requirements for mission deployment and API documents for integration with CubeSat, SmallSat, and rover for flight demonstration.

Potential NASA Applications (Limit 1500 characters, approximately 150 words):
NECR technology will have many NASA applications due to its low-SWaP and low-cost cognitive sensing capability. It can be used to enhance the robustness and reliability of space communication and networking, especially cognitive radio devices. NECR can be directly transitioned to the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate (HEOMD) Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) Program, CubeSat, SmallSat, and rover to address the needs of the Cognitive Communications project.

Potential Non-NASA Applications (Limit 1500 characters, approximately 150 words):
NECR technology’s low-SWaP and low-cost cognitive sensing capability will have many non-NASA applications. The NECR technology can be integrated into commercial communication systems to enhance cognitive sensing and communication capability. Automakers can integrate the NECR technology into automobiles for cognitive sensing and communication.

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

 

[Fact Finder]

Well after using the Tesla now for nearly a week, I have to say they are brilliant. However, it is clear that cameras Mr Musk, are not the future. I didn't buy the car to use autonomous driving I have solar and the car charges basically for free and service in nonexistent. My brakes will last forever as the only time I have used them so far is to change the gear from D to R etc.

How does this relate to BRN, well because Mercedes is going to kill Tesla if Elon doesn't change his ways. In the dark, any pedestrian wearing dark clothes is often not picked up. (found this out at a pedestrian crossing). After not seeing the person I looked at the car screen and it didn't see anyone either. In the dark it didn't pick up my closed front gate (on the screen, sensors did), I assume if it was in autonomous driving we would have hit it? Wasn't willing to risk it . The auto high/low beam is a good idea, but it often gets confused so I've taken that off to manual. One shot learning for this car would be amazing IMO, it could make the experience so much greater. Interaction with the voice commands isn't great as I don't think it understands different ways of saying things. (not intelligent).

I know it sounds like I'm bagging the car after saying I love it, but as you can see it's the small details that could make it so much better. Reading all the LinkedIn posts by Mercedes and their articles, they seem to get it. They have seen where Elon has failed and they are more and ready and willing to be that premium supplier of EV's that "think like you". What I think is, once the fun of the Tesla has worn thin and my childish obsession with getting to 150 in 5 seconds disappears.... the refined driving experience that Mercedes "WILL" achieve, will be a Tesla dominance killer.

Unless of course Elon swallows his pride and rings Sean.

Oh BTW, the steering wheel hasn't come off yet, that's a plus.

You have not mentioned the cup holders? What's the go there. Many people buy new cars solely based on the cup holders???

 

[skutza]

You have not mentioned the cup holders? What's the go there. Many people buy new cars solely based on the cup holders???

They work well. As good as any I've used before

 

[Yak52]

At the end of Phase II, the prototype will be delivered to NASA for testing and evaluation, along with a plan describing a path to meeting fault and tolerance requirements for mission deployment and API documents for integration with CubeSat, SmallSat, and rover for flight demonstration.
........................................................................

If not mistaken "Australia" is supplying the ROVER for the Moon missions with it being developed here in Oz.

SO......................BrainChip and AKIDA (aussie) will be packaged and operating with the "Australian" Moon rover. (of course!)

Not bad!

Yak52

 

[rgupta]

I can see Military Drones using AKIDA to warn other Drones of danger and direct evasive action etc.
Advance surveillance Drones directing others to Targets.
Alerting ground troops etc, etc.
AKIDA is transformational in all aspects.

Is not it the same technology valeo trying to use in cars which they say there will be nothing invisible to cars. The main idea was cars will communicate with other nearby cars and let them know about a hazard in advance.
Dyor

 

[Fact Finder]

Is not it the same technology valeo trying to use in cars which they say there will be nothing invisible to cars. The main idea was cars will communicate with other nearby cars and let them know about a hazard in advance.
Dyor

It is a way of seeing around corners but to work governments would need to proscribe an AKIDA in every type of motor vehicle otherwise Tesla vehicles would keep crashing into intelligent Mercedes Benz vehicles.

 

[Newk R]

The World is a funny place at the moment. Elon Musk is calling for CHATGpt to be put on hold until the world catches up yet his own company faked videos to give the impression that their vehicles were already capable of autonomous driving. California has decided reparations for damage done to its black population currently stands at about 800 billion dollars and loss of life expectancy requires an immediate payment of $1 million dollars to all elderly black people in California. A black male in the USA has an average life expectancy of 71 years but a black male in Africa has an average life expectancy of 61 years. While the longevity disparity between black and white is a cause for concern at the same time the socially disadvantage Hispanic American population has a longer life span than the privileged white American population. Harvard researchers have suggested that the Hispanic diet is likely behind this disparity yet Americans of all backgrounds love the super sized fast meal and flock to food eating competitions. Will the elderly millionaires be able to now eat even more fast food and will this further reduce life expectancy or will they be able to afford medicines that allow them to balance out the effects of poor diet just like the white people. Language is changed in articles to make them gender neutral and a poster feels compelled to apologise for noticing this change. Companies are allowing hackers to steal our personal information every single day and these same companies lecture us on how to protect our data but never mention that the answer to protecting our data is not to give it to these companies in the first place. We contact a company to ask something like their postal address and they insist on having you give them personal information to identify yourself before they will talk to you. The same company will then ring you on the contact number you gave them and insist that you give them personal information before they will tell you why they have called. Young people are protesting in the street about the older generations destroying their futures while at the same time industry in Europe is complaining that the size of the exchanges now needed to handle the social media interactions and use of CHATGpt of this same group of young people is affecting their ability to draw enough electricity from the grid to operate and provide employment.

The point of all this is not political but simply to point out how illogical the world actually is and why when a tiny little company like Brainchip born in a diminutive player on the world stage Australia, and not able to label itself as having been born in Silicon Valley, has had such trouble breaking through even though it has in its hands a new paradigm that will change the way computing is done, how much power it can save the World and how it will restore the ability of the individual to control the flow of their personal information.

I have said it and others have as well compared with 2021 when you could search for days and not find anything new about AKIDA and Brainchip where we are now in 2023 is quite frankly unbelievable.

The technology World is finally waking up to the genius of Peter van der Made and Anil Mankar and this is occurring despite the lack of logic that permeates every corner of the World resisting the application of common sense and intellectual rigor.

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

Thank you so much for this post. I agree with everything you say but will not go into any detail as I am scared of being banned..

 

[ndefries]

Thank you so much for this post. I agree with everything you say but will not go into any detail as I am scared of being banned..

hmmm should we pre-emptively ban him?

It is a way of seeing around corners but to work governments would need to proscribe an AKIDA in every type of motor vehicle otherwise Tesla vehicles would keep crashing into intelligent Mercedes Benz vehicles.

Hopefully in the future cars will communicate to others that a Tesla is nearby and to be careful.

 

[GazDix]

After apparently Airbus was partnered with Brainchip according to Chattensor, I have been digging to find any connection.

I could find our Principal Software Engineer -Chaitanya Kumar Beeram in Hyberbad India, and when he worked at Honeywell (which was an impressive 14 years) he seemed to participate in an Airbus professional development event.

But the closest concrete link I could find was our 'collaboration' with Safran back in 2017. They have been very busy since.

I do think there must be truth to the partnerships that the chat AI progammes are saying we have. If this is common knowledge, I apologise in advance. Hard to keep up!

 

[Fact Finder]

At the end of Phase II, the prototype will be delivered to NASA for testing and evaluation, along with a plan describing a path to meeting fault and tolerance requirements for mission deployment and API documents for integration with CubeSat, SmallSat, and rover for flight demonstration.
........................................................................

If not mistaken "Australia" is supplying the ROVER for the Moon missions with it being developed here in Oz.

SO......................BrainChip and AKIDA (aussie) will be packaged and operating with the "Australian" Moon rover. (of course!)

Not bad!

Yak52

Hi Yak52

A few months back I posted the result of the Vorago SBIR to harden AKIDA and it confirmed AKIDA being the brains of the Rover and gave the increased speed AKIDA was allowing Rover to operate at.

There was much discussion here about the speed and covertin metres per second to kilometres per hour. @Diogenese did some work in this area along with others. All very impressive.

It was Blind Freddie’s day off and I had paid for him to go on a sightseeing bus tour. Actually just sat in on a seat in the garden with a tape playing next to him.

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

 

[Newk R]

hmmm should we pre-emptively ban him?

Hopefully in the future cars will communicate to others that a Tesla is nearby and to be careful.

Not a silly thought really. If future cars did communicate with each other then I guess it would seriously diminish the number of car Vs car accidents.

 

[thelittleshort]

May have been posted before but came across this important job position going on the Brainchip website:

Head of Customer Engineering

Job Title
Head of Customer Engineering
Job ID
27697350
Work Hybrid
Yes
Location
Laguna Hills, CA 92653

As Brainchip is gaining traction in the commercialisation phase, looks like new roles are being created and becoming more specific ie.someone may have included the role of this job previously but now this new recruit will be able to specifically focus on this very important particular area of the business.

SUMMARY:

A principal goal for the Head of Customer Engineering is to bridge core engineering activities into commercialization efforts. This includes technical customer support policies, objectives, and initiatives. This is a hands-on position, managing a team as well as resolving higher level technical and customer relations issues. This position needs to be able to understand and maintain a working, technical knowledge of our client’s core technologies to provide full top level technical support. This role will report to the CEO.

As Brainchip customer base grows, whoever takes on this role is going to be one very busy individual.

@SharesForBrekky LinkedIn shows 100 applicants for this role

 

[Fact Finder]

I have mentioned the problem with living a long life and remembering things that happened along the way is that you end up with too much information for your own good. One thing I remember is the supercar outrage that took hold of Australia in the late 60s early 70s as the public, press and Governments started to fear the risks associated with having very powerful fast accelerating vehicles in the hands of the general public. This wiki article is not a bad recount of what took place:

Supercar scare - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The types of speeds and power referenced back them might make some of the youngsters here laugh but I have wondered for quite some time now how the public might react once electric vehicle levels of acceleration start to proliferate.

I personally cannot see any reason (other than fun or a need to cure constipation) why 99% of motorists need to have a vehicle that can reach 100 kph in under 3 seconds but this is easily achieved with modern EVs.

We have had many accidents over the last several years where an ordinary driver has panicked and hit the accelerator instead of the brake and caused serious injuries and or death to pedestrians and in some cases even people inside shops. Imagine if they had been driving an EV and they had achieved three times the impact speed that they did in their fossil fuel vehicle.

Leaving aside fully autonomous driving I personally can see a time where all EVs will need to have a level of artificial intelligence capable of stepping in and overriding the panicked driver in a shopping centre carpark or at a school crossing.

Does anyone know of an unconnected Edge Ai device that can process in real time and immediately countermand an incorrect decision to accelerate at high speed during a parking or other low speed manoeuvre? Peter van der Made and Anil Mankar are well connected in this area I wonder if they could help with finding such a device.

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

 

[thelittleshort]

This is good on a few levels

https://www.winbond.com/hq?__locale=en

 

[jtardif999]

"featuring helium technology" is an indication to me that it does not include Akida.

As I said before, I think that Akida would make helium redundant.

But isn’t Helium the equivalent of the vector extension technology that is also found in SiFives X280 intelligence chips? The X280 can work with an AI coprocessor such as Akida, so in my mind Helium can do the same - but this could all just be fanciful thinking on my part of course

 

[VictorG]

Possibly posted before but I don't care.

#ai #semiconductor #cloudbased | Renesas Electronics

In a recent interview, Renesas’ Senior Vice President, Roger Wendelken, shared major trends influencing the MCU landscape, such as AI implementation and how we’re enabling customers to embrace the ease that cloud-based design platforms offer. Read the full interview in our comments. #AI...

www.linkedin.com

 

[supersonic001]

Just received an email from our Founder, for the ones who have read the link below, please link it with our founders comment below.

https://lnkd.in/g7_fBhGf

Now that we have announced the 2nd generation Akida IP, and built out our sales and marketing teams, we are looking forward to an exciting year.

As a rule I never quote Peter as we came to an mutual understanding a few years ago, but in this case, I think I'll be forgiven, as an important message is being shared.

Don't you just love our company and top class staff !!! we are on the way to creating history.

Tech

i do like the reference to ' partners' ...... as mentioned here elsewhere, it may not be IP yet, or if ever, but certainly hoping that one day soon, it converts to meaningful revenue just by another name, same but no same..........

 

[chapman89]

This will be interesting.
Will he be mentioning little old Brainchip on Four Corners?
Let’s hope so.