Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • 2 years ago

Human brain-like supercomputer with 228 trillion links coming in 2024

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Human brain-like supercomputer with 228 trillion links coming in 2024

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Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • 2 years ago

The world's first supercomputer capable of simulating networks at the scale of the human brain has been announced by researchers at Western Sydney University.

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The effort of using machines to mimic the human mind has always struck me as rather silly: I’d rather use them to mimic something better.

Edsger W. Dijkstra, “On the cruelty of really teaching computing science”, 1988

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