> eg biological neurons are far superior to our best silicon.
By what metric?
Biological neurons misfire and make errors all the time. Biological neurons don't like -40C or 100C very much. Biological neurons get rather upset when you subject them to a couple of G's of acceleration.
"The actual machine we built clearly suffers from technological limitations, that impair its scalability due to unavoidable noise. These limitations derive from the fact that we encode the information directly into frequencies, and so ultimately into energy. This issue could, however, be overcome either using error correcting codes or with other UMMs that use other ways to encode such information and are digital at least in their input and output."
So, it remains to be seen how feasible this machine is.
By what metric?
Biological neurons misfire and make errors all the time. Biological neurons don't like -40C or 100C very much. Biological neurons get rather upset when you subject them to a couple of G's of acceleration.