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A neuromorphic supercomputer called DeepSouth will be capable of 228 trillion synaptic operations per second, which is on par with the estimated number of operations in the human brain

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[–] [email protected] 99 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I HAVE a human brain and I'm not too smart. It just sounds like we're making a dumb supercomputer

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

If your human brain could simulate a human brain, then we’d really be excited.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Computers aren't that smart either. But they work the opposite to us.

Things we are good at they are bad at (vision, motor control, speech) and vice versa (complex calculations, working memory)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Let’s hope so…

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Same. I'll never believe in GP AI until I see a proof that a matching GP NI exists.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Barely related, but this reminded me of something one of my undergrad tutors said to me while complaining about the fastmath compiler switch: "I don't need my program to arrive extremely quickly at the wrong answer! I can do that perfectly fine myself!"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Even if we had AI that is no smarter than humans it would still be a million time faster at processing information

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's the smartest reply to this post.