MIT computing breakthrough will put a human brain in your pocket – By Matthew Griffin Futurist and Keynote Speaker

Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from our XPotential Academy, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. The human brain operates on roughly 20 watts of power, or to put it another way, on a third of a 60 watt light bulb, in a space the size of, well, a human head. Meanwhile, the biggest machine learning algorithms use closer to a nuclear power plant's worth of electricity and racks of chips to learn. That's not to slander machine learning, but nature may have a tip or two to improve the situation. Luckily, there's a branch of computer chip design heeding that call right now and recently researchers in the UK spun up a million core computer that gets us closer to our goal of mimicking the human brain with all its energy efficiencies, in computer form. I am, of course, talking about revolutionary neuromorphic computers.