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Full scan of 1 cubic millimeter of brain tissue took 1.4 petabytes of data, equivalent to 14,000 4K movies — Google's AI experts assist researchers (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

One minor detail that the brain is not homogenous. I don't know where the sample came from, but you'd probably get different results from grey vs white matter, or the cerebellum vs cerebrum, etc.

Still going to be a gargantuan amount of data though, no matter how you slice it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

This is also pretty lightly compressed, though. If you're trying to do mind uploads you can probably shave off orders of magnitude pretty easily, since in silico neurons don't need any of the functional structures as long as they act the same way.