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TechFirst with John Koetsier

How do we make drones as smart as birds or bats? How Intel’s Loihi chip is 100Xing drone capability

Dec 22, 2020
17:35

Intel's Loihi chip is a neuromorphic chip which tries to emulate the human brain. As far as we've come with convention computing, we are still way behind tiny organisms like insects and birds at understanding the world and adapting to it.

Now Intel is applying neuromorphic computing to autonomous drones: drones that can fly themselves at high speed in challenging, obstacle-filled environments. To do, essentially, what birds and bats and even tiny-brained insects can already do with ease. How? Partially, thanks to the Loihi chip,  which implements probabilistic computing to deal with uncertainty and ambiguity in in the natural world. 

We chat with Mike Davies, who leads Intel's neuromorphic computing lab about how it all works ...

Full transcript will be here: https://johnkoetsier.com/category/tech-first/

My guest works at Intel: https://www.intel.com/

And you can watch the full video on my YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/c89S-oV-H1U 

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