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       @anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz You sent me down a Wikipedia rabbit hole.In late 2013, researchers in Japan and Germany used the K computer, then 4th fastest supercomputer, and the simulation software NEST to simulate 1% of the human brain.From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_simulation#HumanAccording to the table at https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/tpu-8t-and-tpu-8i-technical-deep-dive , the TPU 8t does exceed the speed of that entire supercomputer (assuming those petaflops are comparable). God damn.We have the compute, but there's still no detailed connectome of the human brain to begin fully simulating it like we've done with the C. elegans. And how would that even look like? Do we give the brain rights? Fascinating