Microchip
- ID-nummer
- 2024.018.001
- Titel
- Microchip
- Publik beskrivning
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This microchip contains an early version of a Boltzmann machine, which Geoffrey Hinton plays a decisive part in developing. The Boltzmann machine is vital to machine learning with neural networks, and Hinton is one of the leading figures in artificial intelligence (AI).
The microchip, made by Joshua Alspector in 1987, demonstrates that Boltzmann machines can be placed on specially-constructed chips. The Boltzmann machine on this chip is tiny; it is a network with six nodes, and it has a rather limited field of use. As a demonstration of a principle, however, the microchip showed the way toward further progress in machine learning and AI.
Geoffrey Hinton donated this microchip to the Nobel Prize Museum in 2024. - Pristagare
- Geoffrey Hinton
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