The Golden Rule
Image Source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9f/Memristor.jpg
Intent: To create a base component for building microprocessors, neural networks, AI units, and other computing solutions.
Development Thread: N/A
Manufacturer: Kiribian Systems Armory
Model: N/A
Affiliation: Open Market
Modularity: No
Production: Mass-Production
Material: Polymers
Description:
The memory resistor, or memristor for short, is a polymer-based electrical component that can remember how much of an electrical current has flowed through it, even in an unpowered state. In this way, the function of the memristor closely resembles that of an electrochemical synapse reaction through a pathway of neurons in the creation of memories.
Because of such similarities between memristors and neurons, they can function both as an energy efficient storage solution and as a processing unit at once. In comparison to computer architectures that features separate components of processors and memory connected by a bus, memristor-based setups have much faster processing times. The properties of the memristor also make it ideal for constructing artificial neural networks capable of parallel processing and learning like an organic brain. In turn, these neural networks can be used for creating sophisticated, fully sentient AI units.
Primary Source:
Real World Inspirations
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"Scientists Build a Neural Network Using Plastic Memristors." Scientists Build a Neural Network Using Plastic Memristors. Accessed October 19, 2016. http://phys.org/news/2016-01-scientists-neural-network-plastic-memristors.html.
“Memristor Behaves Like a Synapse.” September 30, 2016. Accessed October 19, 2016. http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/66462.
Mastin, Luke. “Neurons & Synapses - Memory & the Brain - the Human Memory.” 2010. Accessed October 19, 2016. http://www.human-memory.net/brain_neurons.html.
