http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/artificial-brain-in-10-years/ http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/artificial-brai... That's just one exam

http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/artificial-brain-in-10-years/ http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/artificial-brai... That's just one example. We're currently using a machine with 10k cores to model just a piece of the brain of a rat. Neurons fire at up to 1kHz, which means, theoretically, that a modern 4-core CPU could potentially model 5 million neurons, in some sort of crazy 'breaking the laws of physics and ignoring synaptic modeling' scenario. So then we would only need roughly 80 thousand cores to simulate the human brain, ignoring RAM. Keep in mind that's an extremely rough (and terribly bad) guess, which makes a disgustingly bad number of broad assumptions that have no basis in reality. Its only purpose is to show how much better evolution is than us at computing.