“The brain is built on a different computation model we only partially understand, and all this deep-learning stuff is heading in a different direction,” said Doug Burger, a veteran computer architect who helped design Microsoft’s recently announced Brainwave system for machine learning.

“We need breakthroughs to snap back to the biological model of computing or an investment in some other new model to find a new Moore’s law,” said Burger in an interview at Hot Chips. “The advantage of the biological model is that we know one exists, and we don’t know how much digital headroom there is ahead in deep neural networks.”

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