New computer will mimic human brain -- and I'm kinda scared

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A lab in Australia is building a new supercomputer that will for the first time both physically resemble a human brain, and perform as many operations, about 228 trillion per second. It will be the biggest neuromorphic computer ever and the scary bit is how few operations this are. Yes, how few. Let me explain.

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