GETTY IMAGESIF YOU’RE ASKED to guess the emotion of someone in a video clip, neurons in your brain will exchange information in a flurry of electronic spikes. When researchers at Intel recently put a similar challenge to the prototype of their new chip, Loihi, it tried to solve the problem with thousands of spiking silicon “neurons” of its own. Like your neurons, they can adjust the connections between themselves to adapt to new tasks.via