this post was submitted on 15 Dec 2023
322 points (83.5% liked)

Technology

59219 readers
3320 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
L3s@fry.gs
L4s@fry.gs
L4s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
322
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 tsonfeir@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world
125 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

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

Edit: updated link, no paywall

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] Jeknilah@monero.town 51 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Skeptical. As of August 2023, there are scientists still struggling with simulating C. Elegans- a single celled organism.

[โ€“] BillyTheSkidMark@lemm.ee 43 points 11 months ago

We don't even fully understand the brain itself, let alone how to recreate it.

This is token click bait scientific "journalism"

load more comments (1 replies)