[ExI] Neuromorphic Chips

[Stuart LaForge]

Implementing neural networks as hardware on chips could do for  
training AI what ASICS did for bitcoin mining. Neuromorphic chips have  
a lot of potential IMO. Why simulate what you can instead reverse  
engineer?

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43588-021-00184-y

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Abstract

Neuromorphic computing technologies will be important for the future  
of computing, but much of the work in neuromorphic computing has  
focused on hardware development. Here, we review recent results in  
neuromorphic computing algorithms and applications. We highlight  
characteristics of neuromorphic computing technologies that make them  
attractive for the future of computing and we discuss opportunities  
for future development of algorithms and applications on these systems.
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In his recent Frontiers in Neuroscience article about phenomenal  
consciousness being mediated by the complex EM fields of the brain,  
Colin Hales wrote:

"The creation of chip materials able to express EM fields structurally  
identical to those produced by neurons can be used to construct  
artificial neurons that replicate neuron signal processing through  
allowing the actual, natural EM fields to naturally interact in the  
manner they do in the brain, thereby replicating the same kind of  
signaling and signal processing (computation). This kind of in silico  
empirical approach is simply missing from the science." (Hales &  
Ericson, 2022)

So Colin, it appears that the neuromorphic chips and computer  
architecture described in the Nature Computational Science article is  
exactly what you were suggesting right? So if these novel neuromorphic  
AI work as expected, would you believe one of these new machines to  
posses phenomenal consciousness or 1PP?

Stuart LaForge