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Re:Lab-grown ‘mini-brains’ do mimic human brain development by adrianN on Friday April 28, 2017 @10:56AM (#14219847)
Brains are not general purpose computers though. You could probably train lumps of brain tissue do to certain tasks, but putting any kinds of FLOP/s numbers on the label is like stating horse power for levers.
Re:Lab-grown ‘mini-brains’ do mimic human brain development by Robotbeat on Friday April 28, 2017 @10:59AM (#14219881)
That's why I said "OPS" instead of FLOPS. The kind of operations that brains are good at are orthogonal to the kinds that computers are good at, so a hybrid approach is probably a good idea. Again, I'm primarily thinking about this for AI type applications, not like fluid dynamics or other applications requiring high precision.

EDIT:And technically brains are general computing devices. Just really inefficient ones. Emulating logic in wetware is highly inefficient (and usually requires an external memory device, like pen and paper, though pure wetware memory also works in some especially skilled individuals, although still with severe capacity limitations). Of course, emulating wetware in logic isn't terribly efficient, either.