One thing they're doing is working toward an analog DeSTIN (hierarchical deep machine learning network for perception processing), as suggested in
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?reload=true&arnumber=6628006 -- Ben On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Steve Richfield <[email protected]> wrote: > Ben, > > The problem with this article is that it is SO vague. Saying that they are > doing something in analog is just about as vague as saying that they are > doing in digital. > > For example, many people think that analog is necessarily "hard wired", > but designs can easily incorporate memristor-based crossbar "switches" that > can make them even more adaptive than present digital implementations. > > Also, there are circuits that are neither cleanly analog or digital, that > can periodically force a capacitor to the nearest step of charge, so that > capacitors can hold accurate analog values forever. > > Then, there is the whole area of birdirectional computing that I have > posted on in the past, that offers SO much more than present unidirectional > computing practices. Bidirectional computing is SO easy in analog - like it > is sometimes hard to avoid, whereas it is VERY difficult in digital, e.g. > the time to simulate an electric circuit in SPICE or other circuit > simulator rises as the SQUARE of the size of the circuit. > > I think there is great promise in hybrid implementations, but so far every > proposal I have seen has failed to really capitalize on the medium - what > analog can do that digital can apparently NOT ever be scaled up to do. > > Is there any more detail about this project? > > Steve > > > d > > > > On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Ben Goertzel via AGI <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> Cool stuff ;) >> >> http://tntoday.utk.edu/2014/09/19/engineers-move-analog-brain-closer/ >> >> >> -- >> Ben Goertzel, PhD >> http://goertzel.org >> >> "In an insane world, the sane man must appear to be insane". -- Capt. >> James T. Kirk >> >> "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery / None but ourselves can free >> our minds" -- Robert Nesta Marley >> *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> >> <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/10443978-6f4c28ac> | >> Modify >> <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> >> Your Subscription <http://www.listbox.com> >> > > > > -- > Full employment can be had with the stoke of a pen. Simply institute a six > hour workday. That will easily create enough new jobs to bring back full > employment. > > -- Ben Goertzel, PhD http://goertzel.org "In an insane world, the sane man must appear to be insane". -- Capt. James T. Kirk "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery / None but ourselves can free our minds" -- Robert Nesta Marley ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
