Google Erects Fake Brain With ... Graphics Chips? http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Your brain is a collection of neurons -- tiny cells that use electro-chemical signals to send and receive information. But as Google builds an artificial brain that will help drive everything from its web search engine to Google Street View to the voice-recognition app on Android smartphones, it's using very different materials. Among things, it's using graphics processors, the same sort of silicon chips that were originally designed to process images and videos on your desktop computer.



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