Re: Neuromorphic ‘atomic-switch’ networks function like synapses in the brain

2014-08-21 Thread Pierz
On Thursday, August 21, 2014 9:09:53 AM UTC+10, Liz R wrote: On 21 August 2014 02:44, Bruno Marchal mar...@ulb.ac.be javascript: wrote: On 20 Aug 2014, at 01:05, meekerdb wrote: On 8/19/2014 3:57 PM, LizR wrote: Why can't you make a copy? (Is that in practice, until the next

Re: Neuromorphic ‘atomic-switch’ networks function like synapses in the brain

2014-08-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 20 Aug 2014, at 01:05, meekerdb wrote: On 8/19/2014 3:57 PM, LizR wrote: Why can't you make a copy? (Is that in practice, until the next breakthrough comes along, or is it impossible even in principle, like non-clonable quantum systems?) Not in principle. But as I read it the network

Re: Neuromorphic ‘atomic-switch’ networks function like synapses in the brain

2014-08-20 Thread LizR
On 21 August 2014 02:44, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 20 Aug 2014, at 01:05, meekerdb wrote: On 8/19/2014 3:57 PM, LizR wrote: Why can't you make a copy? (Is that in practice, until the next breakthrough comes along, or is it impossible even in principle, like non-clonable

Re: Neuromorphic ‘atomic-switch’ networks function like synapses in the brain

2014-08-19 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
Pretty interesting piece of biomimetic technology that mimics the synapses in a biological brain. Could this be the hardware that gives rise to the self aware machine? Neuromorphic ‘atomic-switch’ networks function like synapses in the brain | KurzweilAI               Neuromorphic

Re: Neuromorphic ‘atomic-switch’ networks function like synapses in the brain

2014-08-19 Thread meekerdb
that gives rise to the self aware machine? Neuromorphic ‘atomic-switch’ networks function like synapses in the brain | KurzweilAI http://www.kurzweilai.net/neuromorphic-atomic-switch-networks-function-like-synapses-in-the-brain?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Daily+Newsletterutm_campaign=ecd9b48acc-UA

Re: Neuromorphic ‘atomic-switch’ networks function like synapses in the brain

2014-08-19 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 1:43 PM Subject: Re: Neuromorphic ‘atomic-switch’ networks function like synapses in the brain But after you made one and trained it you couldn't make

Re: Neuromorphic ‘atomic-switch’ networks function like synapses in the brain

2014-08-19 Thread meekerdb
: Neuromorphic ‘atomic-switch’ networks function like synapses in the brain But after you made one and trained it you couldn't make a copy. You'd have to start over. Isn't this akin to what biological life does? We are the result not only of our DNA and neurological hardware

Re: Neuromorphic ‘atomic-switch’ networks function like synapses in the brain

2014-08-19 Thread LizR
Why can't you make a copy? (Is that in practice, until the next breakthrough comes along, or is it impossible even in principle, like non-clonable quantum systems?) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group

Re: Neuromorphic ‘atomic-switch’ networks function like synapses in the brain

2014-08-19 Thread meekerdb
On 8/19/2014 3:57 PM, LizR wrote: Why can't you make a copy? (Is that in practice, until the next breakthrough comes along, or is it impossible even in principle, like non-clonable quantum systems?) Not in principle. But as I read it the network was made by a self-assembly process that is

Re: Neuromorphic ‘atomic-switch’ networks function like synapses in the brain

2014-08-19 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 2:52 PM Subject: Re: Neuromorphic ‘atomic-switch’ networks function like synapses in the brain On 8/19/2014 2:21 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via

Re: Neuromorphic ‘atomic-switch’ networks function like synapses in the brain

2014-08-19 Thread LizR
On 20 August 2014 11:05, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 8/19/2014 3:57 PM, LizR wrote: Why can't you make a copy? (Is that in practice, until the next breakthrough comes along, or is it impossible even in principle, like non-clonable quantum systems?) Not in principle. But as I

Re: Neuromorphic ‘atomic-switch’ networks function like synapses in the brain

2014-08-19 Thread meekerdb
: Neuromorphic ‘atomic-switch’ networks function like synapses in the brain On 8/19/2014 2:21 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote: -- *From:* meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke

Re: Neuromorphic ‘atomic-switch’ networks function like synapses in the brain

2014-08-19 Thread LizR
On 20 August 2014 13:16, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: Agreed, but isn't this more akin to a neural network rather than the DNA of an organism. Our particular network configuration -- e.g. the actual distribution of neurons and the synaptic