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The models of thinking and behavior of human population, using regular meta-descriptors of IT procedures, show that to increase the computing power will not be the shortest way to the artificial intelligence with ability to solve even simple task of the management. Human nature, human mental ability together with intuition, abstraction and association skills has to be described more in analog then in digital world. From analog point of view, we have connection with many analog signal levels encumbered by distortion, interference or crosstalk’s. The main role will be played by signal to noise ratio at the input to the destination neuron. Furthermore, we are ready to state that interference caused by crosstalk’s would create a part of human association abilities and imagination. Some views of these approaches are addressed in the paper.
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It seems necessary, at the moment, to recall way of basic operation of digital electronic circuit, which is working with physical analogue phenomenon’s, only visible outputs resp. inputs, demonstrate digital character.
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In 2016, researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Dartmouth College presented a paper on a new analog compiler that could help to enable simulation of whole organs and even organisms. The compiler takes as input differential equations and translates them into voltages and current flows across an analog chip. The researcher used an analog chip to test their compiler on five sets of differential equations commonly used in biological research.
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Freeman Dyson (1923–2020) professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
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The reduced susceptibility of the cell, sometimes called refractivity, represents its status change during the interval when it is undergoing excitation. The most significant change in the cell occurs after the first pulse and with subsequent pulses the change of the internal state of cell decreases, until the cell becomes completely insensitive to the incoming excitation pulses.
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We may even consider two pieces of the passway connected in series, so one general channel would be piecewise approximation using many single channels.
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Jirovsky, V., Jirovsky, V. (2021). Is Artificial Intelligence Digital?. In: Ahram, T.Z., Karwowski, W., Kalra, J. (eds) Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Systems Engineering. AHFE 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 271. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80624-8_7
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