Technology @lemmy.world tsonfeir @lemm.ee 11 mo. ago

Supercomputer that simulates entire human brain will switch on in 2024

www.westernsydney.edu.au Supercomputer that simulates entire human brain will switch on in 2024

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

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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Are they planning to run an uploaded intelligence?
- Are they planning to run uploaded anxiety?
- It's to study how the brain works by simulating it. There's been a lot of cool advances in AI architecture that can conceivably tell us a lot about brain function
  
  I've been reading up a lot on how neuroscience is turning to AI to better understand brain function and it is super cool
  
  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10053494/#:~:text=With respect to neuroscience%2C AI,neurological disorders early [23].
  
  The plot of SOMA

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