We built a 'brain' from tiny silver wires. It learns in real time, more efficiently than computer-based AI

Zhu et al. / Nature Communications

The world is infatuated with artificial intelligence (AI), and for good reason. AI systems can process vast quantities of data in a seemingly superhuman way.

However, current AI systems rely on computers running complex algorithms based on artificial neural networks. These use huge amounts of energy, and use even more energy if you are trying to work with data that changes in real time.