A joint international research team led by the Japan National Institute of Materials Science has succeeded in making a neural network consisting of many nanowires.
By using this network, the team has been able to generate electrical properties similar to those associated with the supreme human brain’s unique functions, such as memorizing, learning, forgetting, alertness and returning to calm.
And given that the brain remains mysterious, despite the rapid development of artificial intelligence techniques in recent years and affecting our lives in different ways, especially in terms of the inability to understand how the brain performs certain functions, such as memorizing, learning, and forgetting, this has resulted in resorting to an approach Various of brain research revolves around the creation of materials and systems capable of performing brain-like functions and investigating their mechanisms.
With this in mind, the joint research team recently built a complex brain-like network by combining several silver (nanowire) nanowires coated with a 1-nanometer polymer layer, according to the Japanese National Institute of Materials Science website.
The link between two nanowires is a variable resistor that behaves like a synapse, and thus forms an ultrafine network that contains a large number of complex interlocking elements, or in short, a “neural network”.
Currently, the research team is developing a brain-like memory device using neural network material to operate using principles that are fundamentally different from those used in current computers, for example, while computers are designed to spend a lot of time and electricity when necessary in order to reach ideal solutions , The new memory device aims to make a quick decision within certain limits, although the emerging solution may not be completely perfect.
The team also hopes that this research, published in the Scientific Report, will facilitate understanding of treatment mechanisms
