Do the maths: HAL 9000 by 2018? »
Posted By _kam0_ 3 months ago in Science & TechnologyThe IBM Blue Brain project team has built "a rat-scale cortical model (55 million neurons, 442 billion synapses) in 8TB memory of a 32,768-processor BlueGene/L" That's a long way from the ten billion or so neurons of the human brain - 180 times smaller, in fact - but in Moore's Law terms, that's around ten years.
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