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Brain-Inspired 'Memcomputer' Constructed
New submitter DorkFest writes: "Inspired by the human brain, UC San Diego scientists have constructed a new kind of computer that stores information and processes it in the same place. This prototype 'memcomputer' solves a problem involving a large dataset more quickly than conventional computers, while using far less energy. ... Such memcomputers could equal or surpass the potential of quantum computers, they say, but because they don't rely on exotic quantum effects are far more easily constructed." The team, led by UC San Diego physicist Massimiliano Di Ventra published their results in the journal Science Advances.
It isn't a neural network. It's a sort of parallel analog computer although they do discuss the possibility of implementing it with digital technology.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
Good Lord, people, Scott Aaronson refuted this memcomputer nonsense some time ago:
Memrefuting
The short story is that all they've done is a sleight of hand where they smuggle the exponential blowup somewhere else.