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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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Here's a talk by Denis Nobel, physiologist who compiled all the various evidence into an argument
Here's a talk by Denis Nobel, physiologist who compiled all the various evidence into an argument