Artificial intelligence at the edge of chaos

Australian and Japanese scientists have discovered that an artificial network of nanowires may physically function at its peak at the'edge of chaos', much like the human brain. The team, led by Joel Hochstetter of the University of Sydney, ran computer simulations to test how a random nanowire network, a type of artificial intelligence, best performs tasks. They found that the wires acted almost like neurons. The information processing in the nanowire network was physical and required minimal direction once stimulated, much like the brain, but problem-solved better with the right level of stimulation. When the signal stimulating the network was too low, there was too much order and predictability for it to produce complex outputs, but when there was too much stimulation, the output was chaotic and useless for problem solving.