NIST's superconducting synapse may be missing piece for 'artificial brains'

"Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have built a superconducting switch that 'learns' like a biological system and could connect processors and store memories in future computers operating like the human brain.

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"'The NIST synapse has lower energy needs than the human synapse...'"

https://phys.org/news/2018-01-nist-superconducting-synapse-piece-artificial.html

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