vWISP Pty Ltd. Was established in 2003 to develop a new processing method that performs cognitive tasks in the same way as the human brain. Today’s Artificial Intelligence is nothing it’s name claims to be. So called “Neural  Networks” are not very intelligent. Robots controlled by computers are clumsy, difficult to control and they require large, energy munching, multi-processing systems to perform even the simplest tasks. There had to be a better way. The human brain can process vast amounts of cognitive information every second, yet it only uses  about 20 Watts of energy. Although it is not good at performing fast calculations, or storing exact data over a long period of time, it can recognise people and places instantly. If you pick up a book, you instantly know if you have read it before, without having to sort through all the other books you’ve ever read. Sorting through such a list is what a computer would do.

A computer is a programmable calculator, not a ‘brain’. Computers are built from Boolean logic CMOS gates, which use energy every time they switch, and programs that require clock speeds of many Gigahertz. We have built ‘brain circuitry’ by rethinking how these gates are used, and by connecting them differently. In 4000 gates we accurately mimic the function and connectivity of a single biological  Neuron with Synapses and Glial support cells. A hundred of these make up an artificial minicolumn. The function at the lowest level results in accurate emulation at higher levels. Imagine a machine that is not programmed, but learns from its environment. A learning machine that does not have to sort through a list, but recognizes things instantly. What could we do with something like that? Self-driving cars, security systems that recognise people, brain prosthesis,  educational toys, brain-controlled artificial limbs, intelligent exploration and mining machines, robots, are just a few applications.