@ishmaboy

6 hours ago

This is the first step towards what is called "low-level full brain simulation". Unlike current AI machine learning methods, namely the transformer model which can be seen as a high-level approach to emulating how neural networks function, a full brain simulation is exactly as it sounds: it replicates the brain physically, including all of its chemical and electrical properties. As a result, it takes immense computational power to achieve this given the immense quantity of synaptic connections the simulation will have to emulate. That is still the biggest barrier.

A neat way to think of it is like with emulating video game systems. High-level emulation tends to give you WAAAY better performance, but at the cost of accuracy since you're emulating the software, whereas low-level emulators are exact because they are emulating the original hardware, but of course you won't get anywhere near the performance as high-level.

Once we are able to fully emulate the human brain at a hardware level, in my opinion that is when true human immortality will be achieved. We will be able to upload our own brains to the cloud and run them on supercomputers. Our entire reality will be whatever we wish for it to be.

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