“Today, we bring to you the Starkey Neuro Processor, our industry’s most advanced processor technology,” said Bhowmik. “The determining factor of processing power in the human brain is the neuron. In processor chips, it’s the transistor. Based on advanced semiconductor technology, the Starkey Neuro Processor features 600% more transistors than our previous-generation chipset.”
Ummm. a transistor is nothing like a neuron. That entire statement is a non-sequitur. here’s what seems accurate: the processor has a lot more transistors. That doesn’t make it into a ‘neuron processor’. Oh and by the way claiming that neurons ‘process’ information is itself a misunderstanding: it starts with what computers and trasistors do and then models the human brain on that. Our brains aren’t just computers with a lot more transistors than actual computers have. Biology isn’t hardware. Ah well, most folks believe this garbage.
I had to read well down into the article before seeing what I expected: this new platform may one day allow for better discrimination for hearing in noisy environments. The whole AI wowza stuff is really a lot of hype. That’s my take.
