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Los Alamos National Laboratory: Artificial Brains May Need Sleep Too
June 09, 2020
LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, June 9 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news release:

No one can say whether androids will dream of electric sheep, but they will almost certainly need periods of rest that offer benefits similar to those that sleep provides to living brains, according to new research from Los Alamos National Laboratory.

"We study spiking neural networks, which are systems that learn much as living b . . .

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