Study suggests human visual system could make powerful computer

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To actually get your visual system to carry out this computation requires perceptually walking through the circuit from the inputs downward to the output. Credit: RensselaerChangizi
To actually get your visual system to carry out this computation requires "perceptually walking through the circuit" from the inputs downward to the output. Credit: Rensselaer/Changizi
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Since the idea of using DNA to create faster, smaller, and more powerful computers originated in 1994, scientists have been scrambling to develop successful ways to use genetic code for computation. Now, new research from a professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute suggests that if we want to carry out artificial computations, all we have to do is literally look around.


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