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Spiking Neural Networks

A short overview.

Artificial Neural Networks have become a mainstream and efficient tool for many tasks we once thought would be hard or even imposible to achieve, things like image classification, general prediction and natural language processing, if you add big data and purposeful/ready available tools, techniques and frameworks we are truly living in an age of wonders, yet the current tools might not be able to achieve the greater goal of Artificial General Intelligence and recreate human like behavior and cognitive abilities like consciousness which is why we are here.

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This is a brief and casual overview and comparison of a slightly different approach or architecture that might help bridge and solve these problems or inspire new AIs: Spiking Neural Networks.

In general

I’ll point you to more specifics in a second but in general a Spiking Neural Network (SNN for short) introduces time dynamics into the encoding, propagation and learning process (temporal coding) and…