The hardware is the software.

Journal: Neuron
PMID: 38086371

Abstract

Human brains and bodies are not hardware running software: the hardware is the software. We reason that because the physics of artificial intelligence hardware and of human biological "hardware" is distinct, neuromorphic engineers need to be selective in the inspiration we take from neuroscience.

Authors

  • Jérémie Laydevant
    School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA; USRA Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science, Mountain View, CA 94035, USA.
  • Logan G Wright
    School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA; NTT Physics and Informatics Laboratories, NTT Research, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA 94085, USA; Department of Applied Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA.
  • Tianyu Wang
    State Key Laboratory of Mechanical System and Vibration, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
  • Peter L McMahon
    School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA; Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA. Electronic address: pmcmahon@cornell.edu.

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