Oh yea Google's server farm has just about the guesstimated computational power of a human brain, 20 petaflops. Supercomputers can simulate a rat or bee brain w

Oh yea Google's server farm has just about the guesstimated computational power of a human brain, 20 petaflops. Supercomputers can simulate a rat or bee brain with a few teraflops. I was talking about regular personal computers that individual researches can use to experiment. Supercomputer time is expensive and there are lots of annoying technical problems. They also use a lot of poorly optimized software. I figure another 5 years, a few doublings in GPU speed, new OpenCL/CUDA based neural net software and we'll fit a bee brain in one PC. Memristors are expected by 2015 http://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/artificial-intelligence/moneta-a-mind-made-from-memristors/0 http://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/artificial-intelligence/mo... they'll help run such brains in real time. Also these old charts http://www.transhumanist.com/volume1/moravec.htm http://www.transhumanist.com/volume1/moravec.htm comparing brains to computers need to be adjusted because glial cells also participate in signal processing. So we need a few teraflops of padding.