artificial intelligence - BLOGS - Blacksciencefictionsociety2024-03-29T15:38:17Zhttps://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/artificial+intelligenceFantastic Plastic...https://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/profiles/blogs/fantastic-plastic2022-02-15T22:17:33.000Z2022-02-15T22:17:33.000ZReginald L. Goodwinhttps://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/members/ReginaldLGoodwin<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10108593093,RESIZE_930x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10108593093,RESIZE_710x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="710" alt="10108593093?profile=RESIZE_710x" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:8pt;">Plastic fantastic: this perovskite-based device can be reconfigured and could play an important role in artificial intelligence systems. (Courtesy: Purdue University/Rebecca McElhoe)</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;">Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Biology, Computer Science, Materials Science</span></span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><em>Researchers in the US have developed a perovskite-based device that could be used to create a high-plasticity architecture for artificial intelligence. The team, led by <a href="https://engineering.purdue.edu/MSE/people/ptProfile?resource_id=126678&_ga=2.89652699.1172052678.1644860745-1825841194.1644860745">Shriram Ramanathan</a> at Purdue University, has shown that the material’s electronic properties can be easily <a href="https://physicsandnano.com/2022/02/15/fantastic-plastic/" target="_blank">reconfigured</a>, allowing the devices to function like artificial neurons and other components. Their results could lead to more flexible artificial-intelligence hardware that could learn much like the brain.</em></span></span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><em>Artificial intelligence systems can be trained to perform a task such as voice recognition using real-world data. Today this is usually done in software, which can adapt when additional training data are provided. However, machine learning systems that are based on hardware are much more efficient and researchers have already created electronic circuits that behave like artificial neurons and synapses.</em></span></span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><em>However, unlike the circuits in our brains, these electronics are not able to reconfigure themselves when presented with new training information. What is needed is a system with high plasticity, which can alter its architecture to respond efficiently to new information.</em></span></span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><a href="https://physicsworld.com/a/device-can-transform-into-four-components-for-artificial-intelligence-systems/" target="_blank">Device can transform into four components for artificial intelligence systems</a>, Sam Jarman, Physics World</span></span></p></div>Quantum AI...https://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/profiles/blogs/quantum-ai2021-11-29T10:00:00.000Z2021-11-29T10:00:00.000ZReginald L. Goodwinhttps://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/members/ReginaldLGoodwin<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}9858607872,RESIZE_710x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9858607872,RESIZE_710x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="699" alt="9858607872?profile=RESIZE_710x" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:8pt;">Rutgers researchers and their collaborators have found that learning - a universal feature of intelligence in living beings - can be mimicked in synthetic matter, a discovery that in turn could inspire new algorithms for artificial intelligence (AI). (Courtesy: Rutgers University-New Brunswick)</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;">Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Materials Science, Quantum Mechanics</span></span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><em>Quantum materials known as <a href="https://iopscience.iop.org/book/978-0-7503-1596-8/chapter/bk978-0-7503-1596-8ch3" target="_blank">Mott insulators</a> can “learn” to respond to external stimuli in a way that <a href="https://physicsandnano.com/2021/11/29/quantum-ai/" target="_blank">mimics</a> animal behavior, say researchers at Rutgers University in the US. The discovery of behaviors such as habituation and sensitization in these non-living systems could lead to new algorithms for artificial intelligence (AI).</em></span></span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><em>Neuromorphic, or brain-inspired, computers aim to mimic the neural systems of living species at the physical level of neurons (brain nerve cells) and synapses (the connections between neurons). Each of the 100 billion neurons in the human brain, for example, receives electrical inputs from some of its neighbors and then “fires” an electrical output to others when the sum of the inputs exceeds a certain threshold. This process, also known as “spiking”, can be reproduced in nanoscale devices such as spintronic oscillators. As well as being potentially much faster and energy-efficient than conventional computers, devices based on these neuromorphic principles might be able to learn how to perform new tasks without being directly programmed to accomplish them.</em></span></span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><a href="https://physicsworld.com/a/quantum-material-learns-like-a-living-creature/" target="_blank">Quantum material ‘learns’ like a living creature</a>, Isabelle Dumé, Physics World</span></span></p></div>