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Re:South Korea to spend $1T on more memory chip production a... by red75prime on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @03:38AM (#48729632)
Let's define the terms. What does it mean "with similar capacity"? As far as I understand xvilka was taking about the number of artificial neurons required to model a biological neuron times the number of biological neurons in the human brain. It is modelling its physical structure (on a neuronal level).
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Re:South Korea to spend $1T on more memory chip production a... by Chu4eeno on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @04:45AM (#48730035)
You vastly overestimate how much we know about how our brains work.

Look up the neural correlates replication crisis, and e. g. the "dead salmon" study by Bennett et al.

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Re:South Korea to spend $1T on more memory chip production a... by red75prime on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @05:04AM (#48730187)
That is we have unknowns that might increase or decrease estimates of computational demands of a functionally equivalent ANN. Not everything that happens in the brain contributes to information processing.
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