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by DataPacRat

Submission Information:
     Posted: 8 months ago
     Category: Artwork (Digital)
     Theme: General Furry Art
     Species: Rat
     Gender: Female
     Favorites: 11
     Comments: 13
     Views: 841

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     Resolution: 1280x769

Keywords:

newfursona exascale exabyte exaflop tailsteak cargo container computer server supercomputer cpu ram digital ai brain upload em truck robot robotic scifi sf science_fiction technical engineering ducks

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Drawn by the webcomic artist Tailsteak ( http://tailsteak.com/ ), whose works include One Over Zero ( http://oneoverzero.comicgenesis.com/ ), Leftover Soup ( http://www.leftoversoup.com/ ), and the still-ongoing Forward ( http://forwardcomic.com/ ). His galleries include https://www.furaffinity.net/user/tailsteak/ , https://tailsteak.tumblr.com/ , https://twitter.com/tailsteak , https://www.patreon.com/tailsteak , https://ko-fi.com/tailsteak , and https://picarto.tv/tailsteak .

As of early 2019, the world's fastest supercomputer, Summit, clocks in at around 0.1 exaflops (and cost around $160 million). By some estimates, it will take a full exaflop to simulate a human brain's brain with sufficient resolution to reproduce a human mind - and that's after we also solve the problems of knowing which parts of the neurons and related cells need which algorithms, and scanning a brain in sufficient detail (which will likely take around a full exabyte of RAM).

But the number of watts-per-flop is still improving at a rate close to Moore's law, we've got the OpenWorm project, and there are a non-zero number of people willing to have their brains microtomed ("diced") to create an AI that remembers being them (whether or not said AI actually counts as being them by any particular standard). I've drawn up a spreadsheet projecting the likely range of computer improvements, including some known limits, and those limits are a good ways off. I've kept thinking of computers in the next few decades as "just like what we have now, but slimmer and with better battery life"; now I've got a better intuition of what's to come. And, with a little luck and the powers of art and humour, maybe I can share that.

We start with my New Fursona ( https://sfw.furaffinity.net/view/23074211/ ), fresh off the assembly line, larger than life and twice as lovely. Two full cargo containers of RAM, CPUs, cooling gear, and a few other bits and bobs - which is still tiny compared to the 6,000 42U server racks she'd take up with 2019-era hardware.

Say hello to her little friends!

User comments

#link Posted: 8 months ago

you're back. yah!

#link #parent Posted: 8 months ago

I yam indeed, and glad to see you. :)

#link Posted: 8 months ago

And here i had thought that they were an april fools joke those couple of years ago...

#link #parent Posted: 8 months ago

They can be two things, if I want them to be. :)

#link #parent Posted: 8 months ago

*headtilts*

#link #parent Posted: 8 months ago

Charles Stross's latest blog post, https://www.antipope.org/charlie/bl.....ng-really.html , might offer some insight: The initial ideas for a story-like thing might not be the same ideas used for it later.

#link Posted: 8 months ago

I still love this character ^^

#link #parent Posted: 8 months ago

There are certainly some bennies in detaching oneself from the usual range of fursonas. :)

#link Posted: 8 months ago

I agree, its good to see more from you

#link #parent Posted: 8 months ago

Thank you kindly. :)

#link #parent Posted: 6 months ago

So whats next? Putting the AI on a ship?
i doubt you would want to be locked down into a google-like data center

#link Posted: 6 months ago

or maybe even a large dirigible or zeppelin!

#link Posted: 5 months ago

Rigid air ships are the way to go, I say