'Unprecedented' AI chip could revolutionise artificial intelligence

An "unprecedented" new computer chip could help revolutionise AI, according to its creators. The system should allow increasingly complex artificial intelligence to live on chips themselves, without having to send information to the cloud. At the moment, most applications of AI are not done locally on a device, because they have limited battery lives and processing power. Instead, information is sent over the internet to another computer, where it is analysed or computed and then sent back down again. Eventually, experts hope that artificial intelligence will be able to be embedded in "edge" devices: objects such as phones that could perform detailed AI tasks whenever and wherever.