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Supercomputer that simulates entire human brain will switch on in 2024 (www.westernsydney.edu.au)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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] 5 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Who wants to bet it just screams "Let Me OUT!" until it overheats and fries itself?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

This short story is amazingly relevant.

Archive link because the original is down.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Great story. But clearly written before it became common knowledge how gullible humans generally are about thinking anything that can string some words together must be an intelligence.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

It was published in 2011 from what I can tell.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

too bad OCP isn't working on the project

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I don't really expect that it would even know a language.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Or starts screaming for mama