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AIvan Shows Brain Activity

A project log for Ivan the Teambuilt Robot

An e-NABLE robotics project to give hands to those without use of their hands. Designed with your help.

les-hallLes Hall 08/28/2016 at 14:140 Comments
Too much to say, too much to do... Well, suffice to say that Ivan has what I'm calling a "cognitive array" which consists of cubes that each have six cells, one for each side. The cells are similar to neurons, but they have a one cycle time delay and they fire rather than hold their values - to closer model real brain cells. Weights are like neural nets, and sum of products also is, but the time delay, lack of sigmoid function, and especially the firing approach make the cells different from neurons. Each cell is fully interconnected and paths from cell to cell exist in all possible directions (except local diagonals), so the structure is highly interconnedted. That interconnectedness is what I'm guessing we could call the "Einstein observation, in which those who studied Einstein's brain after his death observed a high degree of interconnectedness. Anyway, a few days more of coding and I hope to be ready to unleash this creation on at first one and later many Google Cloud servers. Yay fun! - Les

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