I found this interesting particularly with AKD2000 with LSTM and a cortical column on the bench at Brainchip.
All those years of research and no doubt billions of tax payer dollars not to mention IBM & Intel and Peter van der Made, Anil Mankar and a tiny dedicated team of brilliant scientists and engineers and 100 million AUD are about to realise their dream for them.
As I said those with Wisdom accumulate BRN.
My opinion only DYOR
FF
AKIDA BALLISTA
“The DARPA SyNAPSE program is an attempt to model the human brain through computer hardware. Most computers work off a binary system with discrete regions of memory and discrete processors. The human brain, depending on the functional region and the
Neurotransmitter in question, can be anything from binary to quantary and uses
Associative memory, rather than discrete memory. In the brain there isn’t a distinction between processing and memory, rather unlike a normal computer, it is a
Fuzzy control system. It also has distinct regions to perform discrete kinds of functions. For example, the
Hippocampus and the
Subiculumare the seats of short-term memory in the brain while the
Visual cortex handles how we see and interpret things. Computers follow a
Von Neumann architecture, with only a few structures for moving memory, dealing with floating point numbers, and performing instructions.
With that background, the SyNAPSE program is an attempt to build a computer that works like the human brain. Over the decades we’ve had general purpose computers, we’ve actually gotten far faster than the human brain in every kind of basic computing task. Computers can recall things faster, process information faster, and execute instructions faster. However, the human brain continues to excel in many tasks that even the most powerful computers are hopeless to replicate. Even the best Artificial Intelligence systems can’t cope when presented with novel inputs. For example, we can program a computer to read a book but if we presented that program with a turnip, it wouldn’t know what to make of it. What DARPA is trying to investigate is how if you build a computer that replicates the functions of the human brain what functional advantages a brain has and how that can be used to build computers that can make judgments, choices, and deal with novel inputs and situations. The hope is by modeling the brain, we can learn better how the brain works and replicate it.
To use a science fiction metaphor, they are building Sky Net or Wintermute, depending whether you are a Terminator or William Gibson fan.”
www.nasa.gov
Or its too early to dream on a Monday morning 
