BRN Discussion Ongoing

[Fact Finder]

Thanks and also to others that answered.

Well if I buy the 25K I will increase my position with around 20% so I already have a few.

I am still fairly spread out in other stocks but if I get those shares the boat will start listing a bit to BRN side, LOL.

Yes the CEO seems like the real deal, knows what he is talking about, honest and very likely very hard working and he makes it clear he can't in most cases tell us who dealing with the company but the ones we know about are very high profile in their different sectors.

When a company is hiring is always a very good sign, expanding the sale staff and also engineers, they are very busy it seems, a super good sign.

I know most people here are very bullish and so am I and I can't really find any negative things about the company and their Alkida chips since no one else have anything like it on the market.

I don't know if any of the big chip companies are getting closer to make a chip that can compete to Alkida? that's my biggest fear right now.

The big companies spend millions if not billions into research and they are not stupid so I wonder when they can come up with a similar product?

Can I make something clear Guzzi none of those that have replied have offered you advice what they have offered you is simply their opinions.

ASIC has currently a blitz on and is shutting down and prosecuting what they call financial influencers on social media.

We here cannot give financial or investment advice but we can give opinions.

Here is a fact that you might not have considered.

If you have $10,000 in your superannuation account in retirement and you need $1,000 a year to survive on then you need a minimum return of 10% every single year until you die to maintain your principle and earn the $1,000 you need to live on.

Now if there is an inflationary environment you need the returns to exceed the $1,000 so your principle increases so that the $1,000 can increase each year just to maintain your living standards.

However we constantly hear from so called investment advisors taking their commissions rain, hail or shine about having to accept the swings and roundabouts as nothing goes up in a straight line. This is probably the only true or accurate thing I have heard said by that industry. So taking the example above let’s assume the following:

You have $10,000 to retire on and you need $1,000 to live on.

In the first year of your retirement instead of a 10% increase you have a 10% loss. So now your $10,000 is $9,000 but you have to live so you take out your $1,000 so now you have $8,000.

The next year the market turns around and you earn 10% so you have $8,800 less $1,000 to live on so you have $7,800.

The point of all this is you need much larger returns on the upside to get back to square one.

It therefore makes sense to actively seek out opportunities and greater returns but every investment opportunity comes with risk and everyone’s tolerance for risk is different.

As such the only person you should take notice of is yourself and your own research.

That research can include the opinions of others but in the end it is your decision and you need to be comfortable with how it turns out.

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

 

[Fact Finder]

RF was included on one of BRN's slides as another potential use-case...

I was looking at that other place in passing and noticed you had been modified was it an out of frustration post or did you post something of value that did not suit the hidden agenda over there? FF

 

[Diogenese]

I would personally not write off Collins Aerospace as AKIDA offered more features than Studio and the security side of aerospace may well keep things out of the light.

The same story goes for Safran. AKIDA offers much more than Studio did. Safran is large in Australia which I did not know until reading about them after the sub deal went south and it was the Australian Government not private Australian companies involved in that contract rescission.

The same goes for the French Police and Homeland Security. The French arm of Brainchip was the foundation stone of that engagement and the dispute over the subs was Government to Government. Once again AKIDA added an extra dimension to what they were doing and I personally as a result of my background could always see this going stealth.

If you want to see this in play just go into any Court where a major drug importation case is being tried and at some point you will see entered into evidence a certificate exempting discovery of details of the technology used to listen to the private conversations of the accused on the basis that to release such information would prejudice present and future operations.

So to be clear I would not write them off but I would not hit speed dial to your mortgage broker either.

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

If memory serves, the initial engagement with French police (Maigret?) was BrainChip Studio software. Now, if they were impressed with it in 2017, there's no reason to suppose it has stopped working in the interim.

In addition, that would be grounds for guessing that they are an EAP participant covered, as FF implies, by an NDA ... after all, I'm sure they have Pierrot la Fou's mug shot on file .. along with Peppe la Pew.

 

[Quatrojos]

I was looking at that other place in passing and noticed you had been modified was it an out of frustration post or did you post something of value that did not suit the hidden agenda over there? FF

It was a Team America vomit gif:

 

[Fact Finder]

It was a Team America vomit gif:

So it was the bad taste police (BTP) or was it the fact he is not wearing a mask. FF

 

[Mccabe84]

With an Akida inspired robotic electric mower I could make a killing and wouldn't have to lift a finger.

Stuff working, I’m hoping to be retired and sailing around the Mediterranean on my 55 ft catamaran called Akida 1 in the next 5 years

 

[Quatrojos]

So it was the bad taste police (BTP) or was it the fact he is not wearing a mask. FF

It was @dean; a reflection of his chat...

 

[sleepymonk]

That’s 2 beers in Sydney if your lucky

400 freaking grams of ginger here in GC, which always makes me wonder if i can switch to ginger beer, LOL

 

[Bravo]

Intiguingly Autobrain's Founder and CEO Igal Raichelgauz started his Ph.D. research at the Technion in the field of cortical neural networks. If Technion sounds familiar, it is because of this.

https://brainchipinc.com/brainchip-nanose-successfully-detect-covid19-01/

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Attempting to drill down a bit more on Autobrains’ self-learning AI technology and have found numerous patents filed by Autobrain's Founder and CEO Igal Raichelgauz. Maybe something for @Diogenese to look over? I could be completely off-track here but it seems like the signature-based technology functions a little similarly to spiking neural networks (see section highlighted in blue shown on the attachment).

As stated in a previously posted article "Current market solutions are unable to cover unpredictable edge-cases without more complex, self-learning-based algorithms - these are essential push factors in order to truly transform the automotive industry. Autobrains' self-learning application thwarts these challenges. Developing advanced driver assistance systems and autonomous driving solutions, Autobrains' AI technology is designed to learn like the human brain, through neural networks, and process information the same way as humans. The avant-garde approach applies "human learning" by using a signature-based technology, enabling cars to learn, collaborate and interact with the real world with no supervision, utilizing data and scenarios from the car's surroundings to enable decision-making just like the human brain, in real time"

U.S. Patent Application for USING REAR SENSOR FOR WRONG-WAY DRIVING WARNING Patent Application (Application #20200258391 issued August 13, 2020) - Justia Patents Search

Using a read sensor to sense wrong-way driving. A method may include sensing, by a rear sensor of a vehicle, an environment of the vehicle to provide rear sensed information; processing the rear sensed information to provide at least one rear-sensed vehicle progress direction indications...

patents.justia.com

U.S. Patent Application for UNSUPERVISED LEARNING Patent Application (Application #20220027742 issued January 27, 2022) - Justia Patents Search

A method for an unsupervised training of a neural network, the method may include initializing a neural network that exhibits at least one invariance; performing multiple training iterations until reaching a last training iteration in which a stop condition is fulfilled; wherein each training...

patents.justia.com

 

[Xray1]

Thanks and also to others that answered.

Well if I buy the 25K I will increase my position with around 20% so I already have a few.

I am still fairly spread out in other stocks but if I get those shares the boat will start listing a bit to BRN side, LOL.

Yes the CEO seems like the real deal, knows what he is talking about, honest and very likely very hard working and he makes it clear he can't in most cases tell us who dealing with the company but the ones we know about are very high profile in their different sectors.

When a company is hiring is always a very good sign, expanding the sale staff and also engineers, they are very busy it seems, a super good sign.

I know most people here are very bullish and so am I and I can't really find any negative things about the company and their Alkida chips since no one else have anything like it on the market.

I don't know if any of the big chip companies are getting closer to make a chip that can compete to Alkida? that's my biggest fear right now.

The big companies spend millions if not billions into research and they are not stupid so I wonder when they can come up with a similar product?

I just don't fully understand how these other potential competitor's could ever get around our patents that are in place.

 

[Fact Finder]

I will make it easier for you again and steal the following extract from @uiux over on the Intellisense thread. I have even highlighted the relevant parts including the uses outside of NASA for those who say there is no money to be made from NASA engagements:

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. 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

I wonder if the communications company Sean Hehir the CEO referred to that they are engaged with currently takes the time to read NASA SBIR
applications.

If so this might have caught their attention and been the driver of a telephone call to Brainchip to have a chat:

"The NECR technology can be integrated into commercial communication systems to enhance cognitive sensing and communication capability."

Then again this would just kick sand in the face of those over at HC who denied that there was any commercial value to be had with engaging with NASA.

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

 

[Diogenese]

Attempting to drill down a bit more on Autobrains’ self-learning AI technology and have found numerous patents filed by Autobrain's Founder and CEO Igal Raichelgauz. Maybe something for @Diogenese to look over? I could be completely off-track here but it seems like the signature-based technology functions a little similarly to spiking neural networks (see section highlighted in blue shown on the attachment).

As stated in a previously posted article "Current market solutions are unable to cover unpredictable edge-cases without more complex, self-learning-based algorithms - these are essential push factors in order to truly transform the automotive industry. Autobrains' self-learning application thwarts these challenges. Developing advanced driver assistance systems and autonomous driving solutions, Autobrains' AI technology is designed to learn like the human brain, through neural networks, and process information the same way as humans. The avant-garde approach applies "human learning" by using a signature-based technology, enabling cars to learn, collaborate and interact with the real world with no supervision, utilizing data and scenarios from the car's surroundings to enable decision-making just like the human brain, in real time"

U.S. Patent Application for USING REAR SENSOR FOR WRONG-WAY DRIVING WARNING Patent Application (Application #20200258391 issued August 13, 2020) - Justia Patents Search

Using a read sensor to sense wrong-way driving. A method may include sensing, by a rear sensor of a vehicle, an environment of the vehicle to provide rear sensed information; processing the rear sensed information to provide at least one rear-sensed vehicle progress direction indications...

patents.justia.com

U.S. Patent Application for UNSUPERVISED LEARNING Patent Application (Application #20220027742 issued January 27, 2022) - Justia Patents Search

A method for an unsupervised training of a neural network, the method may include initializing a neural network that exhibits at least one invariance; performing multiple training iterations until reaching a last training iteration in which a stop condition is fulfilled; wherein each training...

patents.justia.com

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A method for an unsupervised training of a neural network, the method comprises:
initializing a neural network that exhibits at least one invariance;
performing multiple training iterations until reaching a last training iteration in which a stop condition is fulfilled;
wherein each training iteration except the last training iteration comprises: processing a vast number of media units by the neural network to provide media unit signatures;
finding that the stop condition is not reached, and changing multiple neural network weights;
wherein the stop condition is related to signatures similarities.

ITERATIONS!!!!

 

[Fact Finder]

I just don't fully understand how these other potential competitor's could ever get around our patents that are in place.

There is also the development time line that needs to be followed by everyone to bring a product to market.

We post here a press release from a group or company about some breakthrough that they have achieved. If we allow that this is in fact a true breakthrough and they are genuine look at how long the giants of this space have been working on their products and in this regard I refer you to True North from IBM and Loihi 1 & 2 from Intel. These guys had hundreds of millions a year to spend unlike Brainchip that had $100 million over 10 years and a handful of staff.

Then think about how will an amazing breakthrough be manufactured at scale if it is revolutionary. Brainchip achieved this by steering clear of memristors and analogue and ReRAM and DRam and anything else that was problematic with current production methods. Even carbon nanotube connections in lieu of copper on a conventional silicon chip is not coming to market yesterday. This is clearly proven science but which foundry is closing down a line to spend a few billion dollars so they can retool and produce chips using this technology.

This is all before we get the question of price competitiveness sorted out. It might be better than AKD1000 at $25.00 but will it be better at $100 or $200 or $300 a chip. At one stage the price of Loihi 1 was being quoted in the range of $80 to $120 US. Is it four to six times better than AKD1000 to someone building a sensor and even if it is would that be enough to buy it over AKD1000.

Sure there can be scientific and engineering breakthroughs but at the moment with world wide demand exceeding semiconductor supply does anyone like the chances of being able to walk into TSMC and say look this is revolutionary tech and we need you to build an entire new production facility to build this at scale to saturate the market.

Think about all the fears and concerns we had in 2017, 2018, 2019 and up until October, 2020 when the then CEO Mr. Dinardo announced that AKD1000 had been successfully produced these fears and concerns are all there for any new wiz bang technology breakthrough that might be found today, tomorrow, next year and at anytime into the future.

So I personally say relax and enjoy the 2 to 3 year market lead.

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

 

[Bravo]

A method for an unsupervised training of a neural network, the method comprises:
initializing a neural network that exhibits at least one invariance;
performing multiple training iterations until reaching a last training iteration in which a stop condition is fulfilled;
wherein each training iteration except the last training iteration comprises: processing a vast number of media units by the neural network to provide media unit signatures;
finding that the stop condition is not reached, and changing multiple neural network weights;
wherein the stop condition is related to signatures similarities.

ITERATIONS!!!!

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I imagine iterations irritate intelligent individuals such as you.

 

[Diogenese]

I imagine iterations irritate individuals such as you.

I reiterate iteration irritation.

 

[VictorG]

I reiterate iteration irritation.

Irrational reiteration of iterations is irritatingly irritating.

 

[Rskiff]

Stuff working, I’m hoping to be retired and sailing around the Mediterranean on my 55 ft catamaran called Akidia 1 in the next 5 years

Stuff working, I’m hoping to be retired and sailing around the Mediterranean on my 55 ft catamaran called Akidia 1 in the next 5 years

What about this vessel for you that has been seized? Plenty of space on transome for "AKIDA"

 

[TasTroy77]

KMP's and the Board are all driving Mercedes??? FF

I assume Ford want to stay undisclosed hoping that others will assume that the earlier announcement in 2020 competition will believe that they are no longer involved.
Boy Mercedes, Ford, possibly GM,Chrysler ! Imagine the future royalties from these bad boys !
I guess we can speculate that any automotive company that will use Valeo LiDAR would be involved with Brainchip.

We have the world's easiest job just sitting on our hands and be patient for a few years as the AI edge forecast as mentioned by Tony Dawe compounds each year. 100 billion market in 5 years and guess who has fully patented first mover advantage.

 

[Bravo]

Hey crew,

Check this out! Can a spiking neural network be trained to identify a heart attack?

Published: March 25, 2022

How Are Nerve Cells And Artificial Intelligence Similar?

In the field of artificial intelligence, which has a large influence on our lives today, the term “neural network” has been gaining popularity. It usually refers to a dense web of simple units, each of which may be in one of two states (on/off) and impacts of the state of other units connected...

kids.frontiersin.org

 

[RobjHunt]

As our new CEO pointed out, we will be able to gauge all our investment decisions via the quarterlies. The next payday will be no later than 11 days time. Insert here what Big Kev would often say!

Pantene!