Air Force and IBM are building an AI 'brain'

The US Air Force has teamed up with IBM to develop a supercomputing system that mimics the human brain. The system, said to be the first of its kind, will rely on a 64-chip array from IBM's TrueNorth Neurosynaptic System, allowing for pattern recognition and sensory processing power equal to 64 million neurons and 16 billion synapses. Ultimately, it aims to merge the'right brain' capabilities of IBM's system with the'left brain' capabilities of a traditional system to optimize efficiency – and, it will run on just 10 watts. The US Air Force has teamed up with IBM to develop a supercomputing system that mimics the human brain. The system, said to be the first of its kind, will rely on a 64-chip array from IBM's TrueNorth Neurosynaptic System A single TrueNorth processor consists of 5.4 billion transistors wired together to create an array of 1 million digital neurons that communicate with one another via 256 million electrical synapses.