I really wish we could talk about new kinds of hardware without the comparison to the human brain. SNN models capture some characteristics of biological neurons ... but those attributes aren't at all specific to humans.
Representing the way information is represented during computation (via spike rate-coding or whatever), using far less power, changing the interaction between computation and memory -- all of these can be exciting and interesting without pretending that it's closely related to human brains.
Representing the way information is represented during computation (via spike rate-coding or whatever), using far less power, changing the interaction between computation and memory -- all of these can be exciting and interesting without pretending that it's closely related to human brains.