>>11309842So far, every single response in this thread seems to be just speculation. Here are some facts OP.
Kurzweil, Google's Director of Engineering , where he has worked since 2012, claimed in his 1999 book: "The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence" that 20 x 10^15 single floating point operations per second, or in other words, 20 petaflops, is required to simulate the human brain in real time.
This is called petascale computing.
The US Department of Energy's Oak Rigde National Lab recently broke the exascale computing barrier, achieving a peak throughput of 1.88 exaops, (1.88 x 10^18) single floating point operations per second.
We can simulate a human brain, but the problem with using classical computers is that for 99.99% of the time, this brain would probably be dead. I'm pretty sure classical computers calculate information in a linear fashion. If we can achieve equivalent computational ability with parallel quantum computing, then "the soul" of this virtual brain can be sustained.
The size of this lad. I don't want to calculate the size of the factory necessary for this.
Now imagine you want to create virtual vessels for every single human being on earth. Let's assume the population is 8 billion. The estimated computing power required to simulate 7 billion human brains in real time seems to be on the order of 10^28 calculations per second.
Now I'll proceed to my speculation. I don't think Google aspires to produce a civilization like in pic related ((
>>11309869 )). Not anytime soon anyways, and this is because the public pressure that would fall upon these corporations to produce this technology for everyone would be unprecedented.
This "everyone gets a vat" society would quite literally have to be 99.99% automated. Every single molecular resource required to keep these machines and human bodies alive would have to be collected, isolated, and transported to these facilities by automated machines.
