A new supercomputer aims to mimic the human brain as closely as possible – it could help unlock the secrets of the mind and advance AI
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A supercomputer set to come online in April 2024 will rival the estimated speed of operations in the human brain, according to researchers in Australia. The machine, called DeepSouth, can perform 228 trillion operations per second.
It is the world's first supercomputer that can simulate networks of neurons and synapses (key biological structures that make up our nervous system) on the scale of the human brain.
DeepSouth belongs to an approach known as neuromorphic computing, which aims to mimic the biological processes of the human brain. It will be ...