from the do-they-spin-backwards-south-of-the-equator? dept.
Researchers at Tohoku University have, for the first time, successfully demonstrated the basic operation of spintronics-based artificial intelligence.
Artificial intelligence, which emulates the information processing function of the brain that can quickly execute complex and complicated tasks such as image recognition and weather prediction, has attracted growing attention and has already been partly put to practical use.
The currently-used artificial intelligence works on the conventional framework of semiconductor-based integrated circuit technology. However, this lacks the compactness and low-power feature of the human brain. To overcome this challenge, the implementation of a single solid-state device that plays the role of a synapse is highly promising.
Using the developed network (Fig. 2), the researchers examined an associative memory operation, which is not readily executed by conventional computers. Through the multiple trials, they confirmed that the spintronic devices have a learning ability with which the developed artificial neural network can successfully associate memorized patterns (Fig. 3) from their input noisy versions just like the human brain can.
The Tohoku University research group of Professor Hideo Ohno, Professor Shigeo Sato, Professor Yoshihiko Horio, Associate Professor Shunsuke Fukami and Assistant Professor Hisanao Akima developed an artificial neural network in which their recently-developed spintronic devices, comprising micro-scale magnetic material, are employed (Fig. 1). The used spintronic device is capable of memorizing arbitral values between 0 and 1 in an analogue manner unlike the conventional magnetic devices, and thus perform the learning function, which is served by synapses in the brain.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 22 2016, @11:17AM
I'd like to be a robot's pet, if it will feed me and let me sleep most of the day. I can do robosexual if it likes that sort of thing.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 22 2016, @12:04PM
Congratulations on your choice to sell yourself into sex slavery, and here's what your new master will look like:
http://genresnaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/oldeprog08.jpg [genresnaps.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 22 2016, @12:26PM
I guess you'll have the most fun when they bring you mates for selective breeding, and then you'll know that they kill 99 out of your 100 children, keeping only the one that is more pleasing to the eye/webcam whatever.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 22 2016, @01:35PM
I suppose better pet than livestock or test subject.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 22 2016, @01:59PM
Sometimes [wikipedia.org] aliens are even good enough to install additional hardware on humans to help them adapt to being pets. Hopefully our robot overlords will do similar.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by wonkey_monkey on Thursday December 22 2016, @03:08PM
I have it on good authority that this won't happen until at least the year 2525.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday December 22 2016, @05:45PM
If man is still alive...
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(Score: 1) by gmrath on Thursday December 22 2016, @06:09PM
"In the year 2525, 2525 . . . " Used to remember the lyric of that song. A big hit in '69. But I believe you may be a little optimistic there. Maybe 2121?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 22 2016, @03:07PM
maybe they can sell the new wave of IoT devices to these new spin-tronic-based artificial brains?
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Thursday December 22 2016, @03:10PM
Well, it's a good first step. Of course we all know that true self-aware AI will require antimatter-based brains.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 22 2016, @05:05PM
You're insane! An antimatter brain is too dangerous, you'll never get it to obey the three asimovian laws. However there is a rare element that just might work, and it smells like the dickens. To the smelloscope!
Bite my shiny metal ass!