Are you ready for your bionic brain?

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Dexter Johnson writes in IEEE SPECTRUM that

researchers at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) in Australia have built on their previous work developing ultra-fast nano-scale memories. They used a functional oxide ultra-thin film to create one of the world’s first electronic multi-state memory cells. The researchers claim that the memristive devices they have developed mimic the brain’s ability to simultaneously process and store multiple strands of information.

...The researchers believe that these nanoscale memory devices promise a future of artificial intelligence network that could enable a so-called bionic brain.

...Nili suggests that one of the potential applications for these nano-memory devices could be in replicating the human brain outside of the human body.

Nili added: “If you could replicate a brain outside the body, it would minimize ethical issues involved in treating and experimenting on the
brain which can lead to better understanding of neurological conditions.”

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