Intel announced yesterday a 48-core chip that packs 1.3 billion transistors on a single processor. The computing power, according to Justin Rattner, the company’s Chief Technology Officer, will pave the way to machines that “see and hear and probably speak and do a number of other things that resemble human-like capabilities.” But vast computing power is but one requisite to achieving an artificial visual system that’s truly perceptive, and it’s by far been easier to deliver than the other key component – the mimicry of biological neural processing.
Researchers Rethink Approaches to Computer Vision
December 3, 2009