Comment on IBM Chip Processes Data Similar to the Way Your Brain DoesparentComments−Houshalter12yThey are referring to the fact it uses a connectionist architecture rather than a von Neumann one.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connectionism−lispm12yThat says most nothing. The brain uses various forms of neural networks of whose data processing we know relatively little. The IBM chip is at best somehow 'inspired' by the brain. It's far from working like it.−Houshalter12yMore specifically it's also a spiking neural network. You could probably program it to efficiently run very similar algorithms to human neurons.
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They are referring to the fact it uses a connectionist architecture rather than a von Neumann one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connectionism
That says most nothing. The brain uses various forms of neural networks of whose data processing we know relatively little. The IBM chip is at best somehow 'inspired' by the brain. It's far from working like it.
More specifically it's also a spiking neural network. You could probably program it to efficiently run very similar algorithms to human neurons.