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Supercomputer that simulates entire human brain will switch on in 2024 (www.westernsydney.edu.au)
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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] 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!"