Readers weigh in on brainlike AI technology

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Scientists are working on AI technology that has brain-inspired hardware, architecture or algorithms. Such neuromorphic AI could be nimbler, more efficient and more capable than traditional AI, freelance writer Kathryn Hulick reported in “Making AI think more like your brain.”

Hulick reported that mainstream computers, which currently run most AI, separate memory and processing. Some burgeoning neuromorphic technology, such as spiking neural networks, combine the two.

This concept reminded reader Gary Pokorny of an early experience with computers. “The first computer I used … was an Apple IIe, in which I would insert one floppy disk to load word processing instructions, then take it out and

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