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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yup. One of those cards that plays a tune when you open it is more powerful than the Apollo computer. Apollo was only working on 4kb of RAM and 74kb of ROM.

If I had been in charge of figuring out how to make that work everyone would definitely be dead.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Houston we have no idea what our trajectory is and it's just playing happy birthday over and over.