Researchers have developed “infomorphic neurons” that learn independently, mimicking their biological counterparts more accurately than previous artificial neurons. A team of researchers from the Göttingen Campus Institute for Dynamics of Biological Networks (CIDBN) at the University of Göttingen and the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS) has programmed these infomorphic neurons and constructed artificial neural networks from them.
The special feature is that the individual artificial neurons learn in a self-organized way and draw the necessary information from their immediate environment in the network. Their findings are published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Both the human brain and modern artificial neural networks are extremely powerful. At the lowest level, the neurons work together as rather simple computing units.