It’s finally time to start planning your survival strategies in the event of a robot apocalypse. For the very first time, engineers have proved artificial synapses can perform a typical human task: image classification.
The engineers, Farnood Merrikh-Bayat, Brian Hoskins, Dmitri Strukov, Mirko Prezioso and Gina Adam, of UC Santa Barbara, and Konstantin Likharev of Stony Brook University, have marked a significant step forward for artificial intelligence by demonstrating the most important operation in a rudimentary artificial neural network (ANN). The engineers’ findings are published in Nature.
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