• chirospasm@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    “We did the back-of-napkin math on what ramping up this experiment to the entire brain would cost, and the scale is impossibly large — 1.6 zettabytes of storage costing $50 billion and spanning 140 acres, making it the largest data center on the planet.”

    Look at what they need to mimic just a fraction of our power.

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      it’s not like human brain memory or consciousness is that information dense. They just did that high of a definition of a scan.

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    “Google to shutter human brains”

    Why anyone teams up with a company with its greatest achievement being a high score on the “I wish they hadn’t shut that down” list, is beyond my understanding.

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      Because almost nobody else has enough money for such research and governments won’t pay for it because it’s not very useful

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    Storage vendors are rolling their hands in delight while systems administrators, particularly backup admins are cringing at the thought.