{"id":239688,"date":"2025-11-02T14:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T14:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/239688\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T14:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T14:02:08","slug":"university-of-surrey-researchers-mimic-brain-wiring-to-improve-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/239688\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Surrey researchers mimic brain wiring to improve AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Researchers said the model eliminated the need for vast numbers of unnecessary connections, improving performance in a more sustainable way without sacrificing accuracy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Bauer added: &#8220;Training many of today&#8217;s popular large AI models can consume over a million kilowatt-hours of electricity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That simply isn&#8217;t sustainable at the rate AI continues to grow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An enhanced version called Enhanced Topographical Sparse Mapping goes a step further by introducing a biologically inspired &#8220;pruning&#8221; process during training.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This is similar to how the brain gradually refines its neural connections as it learns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The research team is also exploring how the approach could be used in other applications, such as more realistic neuromorphic computers &#8211; a computing approach inspired by the human brain&#8217;s structure and function.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Researchers said the model eliminated the need for vast numbers of unnecessary connections, improving performance in a more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-239688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}