Samsung intends to put Human Brains onto Memory Chips.

Samsung intends to put Human Brains onto Memory Chips.

One of the most remarkable and enigmatic elements of the human body is the brain. The typical human brain weighs 3 pounds, and from the moment we are born, this little organ is inundated with a huge amount of information about ourselves and the world around us. So, we keep all we've learnt and experienced in our heads through memories.  Humans store a variety of memories for varied amounts of time. Long-term memories endure for years, whereas short-term memories remain for seconds to hours.  We too have a working memory, which enables us to recall information for a brief period by repeating it. So, what if we put a whole brain and its memories on a microchip? Doesn't it seem impossible? Samsung, on the other hand, claims that they can.

The next objective for the South Korean tech behemoth is to develop neuromorphic chips that can imitate human brains. Samsung and Harvard University will collaborate on the idea, which was just published in Nature Electronics as a Perspective paper titled "Neuromorphic electronics based on copying and pasting the brain." The idea is to copy the brain's neuronal connection map and paste it onto a high-density three-dimensional network of solid-state memories – which could be a network of non-volatile memories like commercial flash memories found in SSD or new memories like RRAM – by processing each memory so that its conductance represents the path. Through this, they create a memory chip that approximates the brain's unique computational features like minimal wattage, quick learning, adaptability to the environment, and even autonomy and intelligence, which have hitherto been beyond the reach of current technology.

The concept of Neuromorphic Computing was first proposed in the 1980s, but it was never fully developed owing to a lack of suitable hardware and technology. The neuromorphic idea can be successfully developed and employed in the future generation of AI with all of the sophisticated science and engineering and under the supervision of an ace company like Samsung, which has tremendous authority and expertise in chip manufacturing.