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Neurotech Special: Whole Brain Emulation and Artificial General Intelligence

The Foresight Institute Podcast

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How to Run a Computer Emulation

Elson: Can we build a computer that can actually run an emulation if we were able to scan it, you know, and record all the right criteria? Could we even run that? So I'll just jump in. This is one from OpenFil on estimates for how many ops, how many flops the brain is doing. That's just ops per second. If you wanted to do it with Nvidia hardware, sort of like the latest gen chip,. then you'd need 10 of those to achieve the 10 petaflops which is 350k. The cheapest networking gear you can buy is $10 per gigabit. That is equivalent to $10. Total price for commodity networking gear

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