Engineers teach their 1-milliwatt neural chip to play Doom, say this is serious work yo, everyone nods

Engineers teach their 1-milliwatt neural chip to play Doom, say this is serious work yo, everyone nods


The NDP200 is an ultralow power chip that was not designed for your gaming rig. This thing is designed to essentially monitor video via neural networks while using barely any power and, when it spots something of interest like a person walking past, wake up beefier systems to do the ‘real’ monitoring. AI boffins being AI boffins, of course, they decided to show off its capabilities by teaching it to play Doom.

During the 2023 IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference in San Francisco last week Syntiant (opens in new tab), the chipmaker behind the NDP200, showed how it had been trained to play VizDoom (thanks, IEEESpectrum (opens in new tab)). The latter is a stripped-back and lightweight version of Doom that’s often used in AI research and reinforcement learning.



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