brains
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Inside The Weird Brains Of Real-Time Translators
The world’s most powerful computers can’t perform accurate real-time translation. Yet interpreters do it with ease. Geoff Watts meets the neuroscientists who are starting to explain this remarkable ability.
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DARPA-Funded Researchers Have Tested A Drone That Can Learn
Almost seven years ago, we learned that DARPA was investing millions of dollars in neuromorphic chips. That’s a fancy term for a computer chip that mimics a biological cortex — a brain chip. Today, researchers are getting closer. And of course, they’re putting those brain chips in drones.
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Crayfish Can Turn Ordinary Blood Cells Into Neurons
Whatever you happen to call them — crawfish, crawdads, mudbugs — crayfish are pretty tasty. They also have a pretty remarkable ability to regenerate neurons from blood cells. Understanding brain regeneration in these little crustaceans might one day help us understand how it could work in humans.
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IBM’s New Brain-Like Chip Squeezes One Million Neurons Onto A Stamp
Cognitive computing has been one of our most exciting frontiers for years. It’s enticing to think that we can someday build a computer that’s as powerful and as efficient as a brain. IBM’s latest miracle chip just got us closer than ever.