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and emerging unsupervised Deep Learning techniques in Big Data Artificial Intelligence
Rob Telson has mentioned it a couple of times of late and the CEO Sean Hehir also so who or what is considering the use of wearables for health applications apart from Tata that has known links to Brainchip?
Well the following paper sets out what NASA is exploring to try and maintain and treat their astronauts as they deal with the health effects of deep space flight.
No actual opinion as to whether it is or will be AKIDA making most of this possible but what other technology can monitor all five senses on chip without connection on virtually no power millions of miles from Earth IN REAL TIME.
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Looking at the direction NASA are heading in recently with machine learning, sensors, artificial intelligence etc I think Akida will be playing a very big part in this.Breaking news story which could be something that AKIDA technology is well placed to compliment:
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Should have mentioned the former CEO Mr. Dinardo was fond of saying “what AKIDA is doing is recognising patterns, give us any pattern, any pattern at all”.Back in 2008 before NASA had ever heard of Brainchip’s Digital AKIDA technology for SCNN the following paper was published. Just more speculation around the secret other things that Brainchip is working on beyond vision with NASA as mentioned by Rob Telson.
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MAY 1, 2008 | INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Spiking Neurons for Analysis of Patterns
High-performance pattern-analysis systems could be implemented as analog VLSI circuits.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Artificial neural networks comprising spiking neurons of a novel type have been conceived as improved pattern- analysis and pattern- recognition computational systems. These neurons are represented by a mathematical model denoted the state- variable model (SVM), which among other things, exploits a computational parallelism inherent in spiking-neuron geometry. Networks of SVM neurons offer advantages of speed and computational efficiency, relative to traditional artificial neural networks. The SVM also overcomes some of the limitations of prior spiking-neuron models. There are numerous potential pattern-recognition, tracking, and data-reduction (data preprocessing) applications for these SVM neural networks on Earth and in exploration of remote planets.
Spiking neurons imitate biological neurons more closely than do the neurons of traditional artificial neural networks. A spiking neuron includes a central cell body (soma) surrounded by a treelike interconnection network (dendrites). Spiking neurons are so named because they generate trains of output pulses (spikes) in response to inputs received from sensors or from other neurons. They gain their speed advantage over traditional neural networks by using the timing of individual spikes for computation, whereas traditional artificial neurons use averages of activity levels over time. Moreover, spiking neurons use the delays inherent in dendritic processing in order to efficiently encode the information content of incoming signals. Because traditional artificial neurons fail to capture this encoding, they have less processing capability, and so it is necessary to use more gates when implementing traditional artificial neurons in electronic circuitry. Such higher-order functions as dynamic tasking are effected by use of pools (collections) of spiking neurons interconnected by spike-transmitting fibers.
The SVM includes adaptive thresholds and submodels of transport of ions (in imitation of such transport in biological neurons). These features enable the neurons to adapt their responses to high-rate inputs from sensors, and to adapt their firing thresholds to mitigate noise or effects of potential sensor failure. The mathematical derivation of the SVM starts from a prior model, known in the art as the point soma model, which captures all of the salient properties of neuronal response while keeping the computational cost low. The point-soma latency time is modified to be an exponentially decaying function of the strength of the applied potential.
Choosing computational efficiency over biological fidelity, the dendrites surrounding a neuron are represented by simplified compartmental submodels and there are no dendritic spines. Updates to the dendritic potential, calcium- ion concentrations and conductances, and potassium-ion conductances are done by use of equations similar to those of the point soma. Diffusion processes in dendrites are modeled by averaging among nearest-neighbor compartments. Inputs to each of the dendritic compartments come from sensors.Alternatively or in addition, when an affected neuron is part of a pool, inputs can come from other spiking neurons.
At present, SVM neural networks are implemented by computational simulation, using algorithms that encode the SVM and its submodels. However, it should be possible to implement these neural networks in hardware: The differential equations for the dendritic and cellular processes in the SVM model of spiking neurons map to equivalent circuits that can be implemented directly in analog very-large-scale integrated (VLSI) circuits.
This work was done by Terrance Huntsberger of Caltech for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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The following paragraph is where I see the opportunity for AKIDA technology to have a role:
Thanks Rocket577 the favour is returned. This seems a very promising lead to what NASA and Brainchip have been working on in the vision sphere:
Something for the 1,000 Eyes to consider unless uiux has already been here and knows the answer. LOL
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Hi Rocket577
Hi Rocket577
A quick keyword spot on my part had my attention grabbed by the following extract:
"AI for Quantum Computing • Framework for Mining and Analysis of Petabyte-size Time-series on the NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) (Michaelis & Nemani/AIST-16) • An Assessment of Hybrid Quantum Annealing Approaches for Inferring and Assimilating Satellite Surface Flux Data into Global Land Surface Models (Halem/AIST-16)"
This has resonance because Quantum annealing and spiking neural networks was a NASA research paper which as I stated previously armed with some questions from Dio I emailed Brainchip and received and acknowledgment stating they would come back to me and now some months have passed and despite a gentle reminder no response has been forthcoming. And while this extract references Assimilating Satellite Surface Fluz Data for Global Land Surface Models in relation to Mining and Analysis it would also be something required by the program where NASA is funding the army of tiny Ai intelligent mining robots which according to the two researchers was looking at spiking neural network technology. This has been posted about a few times but more recently over here by myself.
If the spider web of connections my brain is putting together is even half correct these are "exciting times" and why Peter van der Made and Mr. Dinardo both felt a younger leader was needed.
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