While the synapse-like behaviour is an exciting prospect, I just want to see Memristors in storage/memory products.
They promise so much, but look like fairy dust. They have been promised as the answer to all our problems for so long.
Research boffins at RMIT university in Melbourne have demonstrated a non-volatile memory at nanometer scale using memristive effects – and suggest it could help build a bionic brain. The team, led by Dr Sharath Sriram, built a stacked structure using perovskite oxide with designed-in defects in its chemistry to demonstrate a …
Hmm.
Does ST:TNG count as prior art?
"How have you resolved the problem of resistance in the neural filaments" ? "Measure of a Man"
Also, my own back-of-the-envelope work with neural nets suggests something along these lines, in fact I sent a copy of the basic layout for a positronic neural net based on EHTSC materials and shifting oxygen ions around to program the net pathways.
In my system it used superconductors due to the increase in efficiency and other constraints.