Saturday March 3rd 2012

IBM unveils chips that mimic the human brain

computing.co.uk | August 18, 2011

By Stuart Sumner

IBM has unveiled a new experimental computer chip that it says mimics the human brain in that it perceives, acts and even thinks.

It terms the machines built with these chips “cognitive computers”, claiming that they are able to learn through experience, find patterns, generate ideas and understand the outcomes.

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