Could brain-like computers be a 'competition killer'?

Commercial applications envisaged fall into two main categories. One, which is where SpiNNcloud is focused, is in providing a more energy efficient and higher performance platform for AI applications – including image and video analysis, speech recognition and the large-language models that power chatbots such as ChatGPT. Another is in "edge computing" applications – where data is processed not in the cloud, but in real time on connected devices, but which operate on power constraints. Autonomous vehicles, robots, cell phones and wearable technology could all benefit. Long regarded as a main stumbling block to the advance of neuromorphic computing generally is developing the software needed for the chips to run.