Professor Chris Eliasmith, Professor of Philosophy and Systems Design Engineering, Canada Research Chair in Theoretical Neuroscience, and Director of the Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience at the University of Waterloo

Open Philanthropy spoke with Prof. Chris Eliasmith of the University of Waterloo as part of its investigation of what we can learn from the brain about the computational power (“compute”) sufficient to match human-level task performance. The conversation focused on Prof. Eliasmith’s experience building large-scale brain simulations, and on the compute required to model different processes in the brain.

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