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It's hard to believe that it can simulate the billions of neurons carrying out trillions of signals

• getwiththeprog 3y ago
  but it is a bit bigger than a brain, so which one is more believable?
• amoss 3y ago
  It's really a question of fidelity. A typical brain has on the order of 100B neurons and 100T connections. This machine can perform 228T "synaptic processes" per second so it has reached the right ballpark. A synapse can fire more frequently than once per second, so there are some orders of magnitude missing there. The rest of it comes down to how complex their simulation steps are, and where they have losses in fidelity because they have not captured a realistic model of how the biological system works. There is a lot of marketing hype in the title (its an SC announcement), but they can probably do something interesting with this system.