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Can We Build a Human Brain Into a Microchip?
destinyland writes "Can we imprint the circuitry of the human brain onto a silicon chip? It requires a computational capacity of 36.8 petaflops — a thousand trillion floating point operations per second — but a team of European scientists has already simulated 200,000 neurons linked up by 50 million synaptic connections. And their brain-chip is scaleable, with plans to create a superchip mimicking 1 billion neurons and 10 trillion synapses. Unfortunately, the human brain has 22 billion neurons and 220 trillion synapses. Just remember Ray Kurzweil's argument: once a machine can achieve a human level of intelligence — it can also exceed it."
There will be no intelligence explosion. A snail cannot design a smarter snail. Humanity has not yet designed a smarter human. Furthermore, all we know is that meat makes thinking brains. Computers just switch bits on and off, and certainly don't know what bits are or anything for that matter since they don't think.
Right, cause god and the bible is totally relevant to this discussion...
That you're a dipshit?
Son, we know that TODAY.