Neural Net Processors

[Red Falcon]

I was wondering about neural net processors and how they work. How are they different from our x86/x64 CPUs and GPUs?

I know that Skynet from the Terminator movies utilized six neural net processors (granted this is fiction), but would it be possible for today's desktop/workstation/server computer to utilize one of these (using a new/existing OS architecture or programming language)?

http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~pdw/astrocytes/Vascular.html

I really would like to hear what everyone has to say. I would really appreciate it!

http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/technology/images_videos/iv_pages/D2000_0906_B3.html

http://www.modulusfe.com/nnpc12/

 

[Yaemish]

My CPU is a neural net processor... a learning computer.

 

[Digital Viper-X-]

NN can be done with software, it's basically like a human mind, it learns and adapts as it goes, you "teach" it something, and it will keep doing it and getting better at it

 

[pxc]

It would rule if the next time they show the NN chip on the Sarah Conner Chronicles that it had an nvidia logo (or Windows logo) on it.

 

[Sojuuk]

It would rule if the next time they show the NN chip on the Sarah Conner Chronicles that it had an nvidia logo (or Windows logo) on it.

windows doesn't make chips!

Certified for Windows Vista®

 

[pxc]

windows doesn't make chips!

AMD used to put Windows logos on chips. http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=amd k6&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

The Vista certified logo could work too. We're going for comedy value here; even an Xbox logo would work. Give Cameron a RROD.

 

[Flexion]

windows doesn't make chips!

Certified for Windows Vista®

What are you kidding? Windows Vista IS Skynet in disguise.

 

[gesicht]

What are you kidding? Windows Vista IS Skynet in disguise.

that is why it a 16 gig install. all that room for learning!