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

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by tsonfeir@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] ripcord@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago

Those cards are more powerful than the watches I'm thinking of when people say "Casio nothing-watch", I think is what I was getting at. I'm thinking simple digital watches from the 80s/90s/2000s, kind of thing. As far as I know they have no real programmable logic, and anything that might be considered RAM is under 1KB.

But yeah those cards that actually play recorded samples are probably more powerful general computers than onboard Apollo, that's a good comparison.

Still, those computers and stuff like the Saturn instrument unit were freaking marvels, considering what all they could actually do with so little.