Spring into STEM | Making Siri More Like Us: The Neuromorphic Approach | Virtual Lecture Series
Join the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering (EEE) researcher Daniel Mannion for a #SpringIntoSTEM lightning lecture, as he delves into neuromorphic engineering and what it means for us.
Spring into STEM | Making Siri More Like Us: The Neuromorphic Approach | Virtual Lecture Series
08 Jun 2021, 13:00 – 13:30
As much as we love them, computers are quick to make us feel slow. Whether it’s Siri’s ability to calculate the square root of pi or that chess AI beating you more times than you would like to admit – it seems like we’ve lost the battle. But fortunately for us, perhaps not the war…
Your secret weapon is efficiency. You are capable of running the human body autonomously – an incredibly complex task – whilst also carrying out your day to day lives with your brain operating at the power consumption of a light bulb. And we’re not talking filament here, we’re talking your energy saving bulbs. Roughly.
In this quickfire talk, Dan will explore the issue of power consumption within today’s machine learning hardware and discuss how researchers are taking inspiration from the human brain to tackle this issue. Welcome to neuromorphic engineering.
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