Первого июня подразделение поисковика, занимающееся разработками в области искусственного интеллекта, опубликовало в своем блоге релиз самой подробной на данный момент трехмерной структуры фрагмента коры головного мозга человека.
Сначала исследователи из Гарварда нарезали один кубический миллиметр ткани мозга на 5300 слоев толщиной всего 30 нанометров и получили изображение каждого слоя с помощью сканирующей электронной микроскопии с разрешением в 4 нанометра или одной 250-тысячной доли миллиметра, всего получилось 255 миллионов изображений или примерно по 48 тысяч на один слой. Затем команда Google AI создала из всего этого добра огромную трехмерную модель, объемом 1400 терабайта (1,4 петабайта) для чего потребовалась работа уже искусственных нейросетей использующих для вычислений тысячи тензорных процессоров Cloud TPU.
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