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Re:Artificial synapses 10k times faster than real thing by WhitneyLand on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @11:09PM (#32407486)
As the core part of some software I could make a game engine.

Or I could do the same thing but name it an “artificial heart”, noting that it’s 10,000 times faster than a human heart.

That makes sense because artificial just means made by humans?

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Re:Artificial synapses 10k times faster than real thing by myownpetard on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @11:37PM (#32407620)
It's more like calling an articulated robot with a manipulator a 'robotic arm', despite being infinitely simpler than a human arm and with much more limited functionality.

I agree that the speed comparison seems like a very misguided metric though.

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Re:Artificial synapses 10k times faster than real thing by tiagod on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @01:57AM (#32408222)
Well, it's a robot in the shape of an arm. A robotic dog doesn't have to look or behave much like a dog to earn its name.

You wouldn't call them artificial dogs nor artificial arms (unless they were being used as a prosthetic I guess, but then it's just a robotic prostethic arm)

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