Newly Developed Memristor Could Be The Next Step To An Artificial Human Brain

Tasks that are difficult for conventional computing systems can be performed by artificial neural networks (ANNs). ANNs have learning abilities and can performs tasks such as classification, pattern recognition and on-line learning. Practical implementation of ANNs is currently hampered by the lack of a key component that every ANN requires in large numbers – efficient hardware synapses.

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> Practical implementation of ANNs is currently hampered by the lack of a key component that every ANN requires in large numbers – efficient hardware synapses.

That’s a point. I’m so used to computer simulations of Neural Networks that I tend to forget that a Neutral Network is by definition hardware. And such hardware requires memristers.

Could a Neural Network be grown from animal cells?

mollwollfumble said:

Could a Neural Network be grown from animal cells?

I vaguely remember reading an article were they attempted something like this