JUST IN: Scientists say AI has decoded communication patterns in mice, dolphins, apes, birds, whales, & cuttlefish — could eventually lead to humans communicating directly with animals.

The math on this project should mass-humble every AI lab on the planet. 1 cubic millimeter. One-millionth of a human brain. Harvard and Google spent 10 years mapping it. The imaging alone took 326 days. They sliced the tissue into 5,000 wafers each 30 nanometers thick, ran them through a $6 million electron microscope, then needed Google’s ML models to stitch the 3D reconstruction because no human team could process the output. The result: 57,000 cells, 150 million synapses, 230 millimeters of blood vessels, compressed into 1.4 petabytes of raw data. For context, 1.4 petabytes is roughly 1.4 million gigabytes. From a speck smaller than a grain of rice. Now scale that. The full human brain is one million times larger. Mapping the whole thing at this resolution would produce approximately 1.4 zettabytes of data. That’s roughly equal to all the data generated on Earth in a single year. The storage alone would cost an estimated $50 billion and require a 140-acre data center, which would make it the largest on the planet. And they found things textbooks don’t contain. One neuron had over 5,000 connection points. Some axons had coiled themselves into tight whorls for completely unknown reasons. Pairs of cell clusters grew in mirror images of each other. Jeff Lichtman, the Harvard lead, said there’s “a chasm between what we already know and what we need to know.” This is why the next step isn’t a human brain. It’s a mouse hippocampus, 10 cubic millimeters, over the next five years. Because even a mouse brain is 1,000x larger than what they just mapped, and the full mouse connectome is the proof of concept before anyone attempts the human one. We’re building AI systems that loosely mimic neural networks while still unable to fully read the wiring diagram of a single cubic millimeter of the thing we’re trying to imitate. The original is 1.4 petabytes per millionth of its volume. Every AI model on Earth fits in a fraction of that. The brain runs on 20 watts and fits in your skull. The data center required to merely describe one-millionth of it would span 140 acres.

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WE’RE STUFFED The Economist Magazine has just published this chart showing that Australia has the most bloated government bureaucracy in the world - and also the fastest growing (except for Argentina pre-Melei). The government bureaucracy in Australia has grown so large and so politically powerful, that it continues to enrich itself and increase its power with no end in sight. Any discussion of an Australian D.O.G.E is met with such political hostility (lead by the state media; the ABC) , that politicians are now too frightened to even discuss that the bureaucracy needs to be wound back even by the slightest amount. And the Labor Party have gerrymandered the Australian Senate by employing tens of thousands of additional left-voting Canberra based bureaucrats, resulting in the ACT permanently electing two Senators from the left, making it near impossible for the non-left side of Australian politics to ever have the balance of power in the Senate. And going forward, as the number of Australians creating wealth in the private sector continued to decline - it’s just a matter of time until the bureaucrats run out of other people’s money to reward themselves with. It’s like when a parasite attaches itself to a host, and bleeds the host dry, until there is nothing left to feed on, and then they both die. economist.com/graphic-detail…

We can unite under the flag entered around the foreign union jack. No. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags are more Australian than any flag we have. Patriots of the right, are you Australian or Pom?