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The processing power of the human brain is actually on the order of a few petaflops. So, you know, Gibson was only off by a factor of a few million. We can now match petaflopsâthe worldâs fastest supercomputer is actually about 30 petaflops.
65,536 artificial neurons packed onto just one of Neurogrid's chips. According to Kwabena Boahen, a computer scientist at Stanford University, a robot with a processor as smart as the human brain would require at least 10 megawatts to operate. That's the amount of energy produced by a small hydroelectric plant. But a small group of computer scientists may have hit on a new neural supercomputer that could someday emulate the human brain's low energy requirements of just 20 watts--barely enough to run a dim light bulb.