Now, I know that all my 3 readers are dying to know how the Arties work, because they might take my non-job away. Rest assured this is all fantasy hype, just like everything else on the media. And it's all scaling effects.
A simple neuron has many inputs and outputs, and changes it's 'mapping' depending on what has happened to it. This is simulated by standard computer electronics. Lots of people are trying to do something else, but it is the standard graphics board that reigns supreme.
The graphics board is what we used to call a Cray Supercomputer. We had that when I started computers and it was generally useless. Instead of doing one thing at a time, like the Intel processor, you had to break up your problem into many pieces that could be fed in all at once, like a thousand processors. So, it was a 1000 times faster than a standard processor, but impossible to figure out what to do with it.
I tried using it for finite differences analysis, but breaking things up and putting them back together again was more work than it was worth it. Then, the Green Screen was killed, and we had graphics. You had many little things zooming around on the screen, and suddenly the Super Computer was popular again. Except they put this on a graphics card, with graphics chips. So, when you shot your Space Invaders bullet, that 'sprite' just went on by itself, and could be processed independently.
-- to be continued, or written by my Artie replacement.
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