IBM creates artificial intelligence technology to ‘hypercellular’ – Globo.com

IBM developed a set of TrueNorth processors have capacity similar to that of a rodent brain. In practice, this means that the technology will be able to identify images, words and language as well as a biological brain. The idea of ​​the research is to apply these findings in cell, to generate in the future, a hyper smartphone.

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The set of 48 processors consists of 48 million artificial nerve cells, same number of neurons present in the brain of a mouse. These same networks provide the ability to learn and evolve with time.

Virtual assistants like Siri, Cortana and Google Now; the facial recognition feature in Facebook photos; and instant translation in Skype are just a few examples of applications that could take advantage of technology. With the cells, these systems run specific algorithms, dubbed deep learning (deep learning, in a free translation).

The difference is that all these technologies work away from the user – they run on huge servers that require constant connection to the Internet. The IBM design is a compact version of these servers with lower power consumption and even processing power. This project can generate new CPUs for smartphones, providing the user with artificial intelligence resources that today are still restricted.

IBM TrueNorth chip can run the algorithms deep learning efficiently because, unlike all kinds of microchips architectures, they are built to simulate the way our brains process information.

size of a postage stamp

Each TrueNorth processor has the size of a postage stamp, consumes the equivalent of 70 milliwatts of energy and has 5.4 billion transistors. As a comparison, a common CPU from Intel, the most powerful, has 1.4 billion transistors and consume far more than 100 watts to operate.

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Remember that the processors developed by IBM are not electronic brains. They also process information in the same way that an ordinary CPU in the same binary method of switching between 0 and 1, and its learning abilities are limited to software commands that instruct them.

The big news is that, unlike a common processor, TrueNorth can realize a lot of data at once. In this sense, IBM’s innovative CPU may allow, in the future, your smartphone has more intelligence and even more “smart”.

Via Wired