Neuromorphic computing

21 Jul 23

How Hacking Honeybees Brings AI Closer to the Hive

Computer & Information Technology

If you ask a team of British computer scientists, the wisdom of the hive is more than just a poetic turn of phrase. These researchers have in fact studied the brains of honey bees to develop a new kind of machine intelligence for decision-making. While a bee’s life looks simple…

23 Apr 23

Organoid Intelligence: Computing on the Brain

Computer & Information Technology

In parallel with recent developments in machine learning like GPT-4, a group of scientists has recently proposed the use of neural tissue itself, carefully grown to re-create the structures of the animal brain, as a computational substrate. After all, if AI is inspired by neurological systems, what better medium to…

25 Jan 23

Stacking Turns Organic Transistors Up

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Metallurgy & Material Science

Organic electronics appear to be, as the name might imply, quite good at interacting with a biological body and brain. Now scientists have created record-breaking, high-performance organic electronic devices using a potentially cheap, easy, and scalable approach that adopts a vertical architecture instead of a flat one, according to a…

02 Dec 22

Computing With Chemicals Makes Faster, Leaner AI

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Metallurgy & Material Science

How far away could an artificial brain be? Perhaps a very long way off still, but a working analogue to the essential element of the brain’s networks, the synapse, appears closer at hand now. That’s because a device that draws inspiration from batteries now appears surprisingly well suited to run…