Intel’s New Chip Design Takes Pointers From Your Brain
If you’re asked to guess the emotion of someone in a video clip, neurons in your brain will exchange information in a flurry of electronic spikes. Intel says tests indicate its brain-inspired, or neuromorphic, design can do things like interpret video using as little as one-thousandth of the energy of a conventional chip. But Intel’s existing technology—and that in AI chips from Google, Microsoft, and Apple—powers neural networks using conventional chip designs. Intel’s Loihi is different because its crude analogs of neurons are burned into hardware, and its design differs fundamentally from the computer chips the world runs on today. Some leading AI researchers, including Facebook’s Yann LeCun, have expressed skepticism about neuromorphic chips, noting that spiking silicon neurons have not yet proved as powerful or flexible as machine-learning software running on conventional chips.
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