hardware
NASA helicopter's mission ends after three years on Mars
Posted in Science on 31st Jan, 2024
by Alex Muller
On January 25, however, NASA confirmed its rotocopter damaged at least one blade while completing a flight on January 18. Although upright and still in communication with ground control, Ingenuity’s days of aerial exploration are definitely behind it.
A New Brain-Like Supercomputer Aims To Match The Scale Of The Human Brain
Posted in Hardware, Science, Software on 29th Dec, 2023
by Alex Muller
Because the computations performed by individual neurons and synapses are very simple compared with traditional computers, the energy consumption is orders of magnitude smaller.
AI system does better than humans at identifying odors
Posted in Hardware, Science, Software on 31st Aug, 2023
by Alex Muller
The researchers used the system to map 500,000 odor molecules that have never actually been synthesized – a task, says the team, that would take a human 70 years of sniffing to complete.
IBM’s Brain-Inspired Analog Chip Aims to Make AI More Sustainable
Posted in Hardware on 31st Aug, 2023
by Alex Muller
IBM has been at the forefront of designing analog chips that mimic brain computation. A breakthrough came in 2016, when they introduced a chip based on a fascinating material usually found in rewritable CDs.
Future AI algorithms have potential to learn like humans
Posted in Science, Software on 24th Jul, 2023
by Alex Muller
"Our work heralds a new era of intelligent machines that can learn and adapt like their human counterparts."