Artificial Synapses Could Lead to Smarter AI

Credit: whitehoune/Shutterstock Heads up, humanity. Artificial intelligence may be about

to get a lot smarter. An international team of scientists has developed a new kind of synthetic synapse for artificial intelligence systems using the neural network model. In artificial neural networks, computing systems are designed to emulate the function of the human brain, with digital neurons and synapses replicating the function of their biological counterparts. In this context, synapses serve as a gateway for neurons, whether synthetic or biological, to pass information and signals to one another. They're the connective tissue in both biological and artificial neural networks. It's estimated that the typical human nervous system contains more than 100 trillion synapses.