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Cubic millimetre of brain mapped in spectacular detail (www.nature.com)

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Google scientists have modelled a fragment of the human brain at nanoscale resolution, revealing cells with previously undiscovered features.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (3 children)

https://h01-release.storage.googleapis.com/data.html

Make sure you have spare 1400 terabytes.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago (2 children)

you wouldn't download a brain

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

Only a cubic millimetre of it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Sadly, you can't download the hardware to run models that size.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Wild

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I imagined it would be big but that's mad. Is that full 3d model or just connection cos of its just connections it really shows how far our ai is from replacing us.