Comment the article is misleading (Score 1) 454
22.8 teraflops sounds like a high number, but speed is not the problem... Our brains have approximately 10E11 neurons and each has about 10E4 connections, for an effective 10E15 connections. This would be more comparable to memory rather than processing power.
Furthermore, the difficulty in simulating the human brain is actually more of a software problem rather than a hardware one. Throwing lots of money into bigger and faster machines won't get us too much closer to a workable human brain model. But it might play chess better...
Furthermore, the difficulty in simulating the human brain is actually more of a software problem rather than a hardware one. Throwing lots of money into bigger and faster machines won't get us too much closer to a workable human brain model. But it might play chess better...
