computers - using your brains
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Computers - Using your Brains
Jim Austin
Professor of Neural Computation
Pentium III
So how complex is it ?
– 1012 neurons … 1,000,000,000,000–1000 connections between neurons.
– One brain can hold ...
1,000,000,000,000,000 numbers!
What do 1012 neurons look like ?
• 1600 times Population of the world (6,100,000,000)
• 78,125 times the complexity of the Pentium III
• Equal to the number of stars in our galaxy
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The good and the bad
What are computers bad at ?Being reliableFinding information - knowledgeDoing very complex things - recognizing imagesLearning to do the job them selves!
What are computers good at ?Adding up fastStoring data - numbers and factsPushing data around
Why are computers so restricted ?
ACE
Leo - for stock control
Colossus - for breaking codes
Pegusus - for scientific work
Neurons verses Gates
NAND Gate
Input 1Input 2
Output
Boolean Logic - both inputs OK, output not OK
Gates - NAND
Input 1 Input 2 Output
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ALL inputs to be OK for output to be NOT OK
Evolution ?
Should have picked a NAND gate for the brain...
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“Weights”
Inputs OutputA
B
Threshold logic - threshold 1 - one or more inputs OK output OK
Output = threshold (input A x weight A + input B x weight B)
Neuron
Neuron
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At least three OK’s for output to be OK
At least one OK for output to be OK
Can also alter connections/importance of inputs
using the weights on the inputs
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Weights
Why did this difference develop ?
• “The analysis of the operation of a machine using two indication elements and signals can be conveniently be expressed in terms of a diagrammatic notation introduced, in this context, by Von Neuman and extended by Turing. This was adopted from a notation used by Pits and McCulloch as a possible way of analyzing the operation of the nervous system,…” Calculating Instruments & Machines, D Hartree, 1950, Cambridge University Press.
• Probably dropped due to the development of the silicon chip– simpler to build Boolean logic gates rather than neuron
units.
Functional elements.
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k inputs
Threshold n gatek n
1z Excitation, “OR”
2z
Excitation, “AND”
ICT Orion Computer• Used ‘Neuron’ logic - 1962
Learning !
Learning at neuron level =
Adjustment of which inputs are important
Conventional computers have no implicit learning ability
Spot the difference
Happy
Hungry
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Threshold = 2
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Happy
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+ hungry
Happy
Can we build useful systems with neurons ?
Better tolerance to failureParallelism/use of threshold logic/distributed memory
Faster operationMassive parallelism
Better access to uncertain informationThreshold logic/neurons
Where the inputs are uncertainThreshold logic/neurons.
Where we want low powerAsynchronous systems
AdaptabilityUse of weights and learning methods.
So what have we done with these ?
Cortex-1
28 Processor cards, each holding 128 hardware neurons.
Each with 1,000,000,000 weights.
16MHz.
PCI based card.
Complete Machine:
400,000,000 neuron evaluations per second28,000 inputs30 bits set on input1,000,000 neurons.
Cortex-1 node
5,120,000,000 neuron weights, 640 neurons.
Recognising Addresses for the Post Office
Recognising trademarks
Text search engines
• Tolerant to spelling errors.
• Finds similar words to those supplied, for example chair, seat, bench.
• Learns these similarities automatically from text.
• Uses neural engine for document storage.
• Estimated 400,000,000 documents searched per second.
Molecular Databases• One of few systems that deal with the full 3D molecule
Query
Good matches
Bad Match
(It’s Brains from Thunderbirds !)
Aaron Turner
Mick Turner
Vicky Hodge
Julian Young
Anthony Moulds
Zyg Ulanowski
Ken Lees
Michael Weeks
Sujeewa Alwis
John Kennedy
David Lomas
and many others ….
Thanks...
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