Neuromorphic has been an ongoing failure (for general purpose processors or even AI accelerators),
ever since Carver Mead introduced (and quickly abandoned them) them nearly half a century ago.
Bill Dally (NVidia CTO) concurs:
"I keep getting those calls from those people who claim they are
doing neuromorphic computing and they claim there is something
magical about it because it's the way that the brain works ...
but it's truly more like building an airplane by putting
feathers on it and flapping with the wings!"
From: Hardware for Deep Learning, HotChips 2023 keynote.
We have NO idea how the brain produces intelligence, and as long
as that doesn't change, "neuromorphic" is merely
a marketing term, like
Neurotypical,
Neurodivergent,
Neurodiverse,
Neuroethics,
Neuroeconomics,
Neuromarketing,
Neurolaw,
Neurosecurity,
Neurotheology,
Neuro-Linguistic Programming:
the "neuro-" prefix is suggesting a deep scientific insight to
fool the audience.
There is no hope of us cracking the question of how the human brain produces high-level intelligence in the next decade or so.
Neuromorphic does work for some special purpose applications.
