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iammyownrushmore · 3440 days ago · link · · parent · post: A nematode worm's brain has been mapped, simulated in software & put into a lego robot which now *acts like a worm*
this experiment isn't about computational power, this is a emulation of a natural connectome. They're different in application. IBM is running a bunch of artificial neurons at the size of a cat or mouse brain, but they do not have the connective features particular to an entire connectome. They took existing data about how exactly each of the neurons physically and electrochemically interact, imported that into an artificial neural network, and hit "run". Out came a synthetic version of a nematode.