| | In mathematician Rudy Rucker's cyberpunk novels Software and Wetware, the non-asimovian robots in Luna evolved from petaflop 'bots to femtoflop. Of course, it was a smaller package in the stories, but the processing technology is here and now for true standalone artificial intelligence.
What go my attention was that these are flops: not just "operations" but floating point operations. Time was when I was young, you needed a special program or firmware for floating point. The future unfolds.
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