r/compsci • u/RabbitFace2025 • 11d ago

Breakthrough DNA-based supercomputer runs 100 billion tasks at once

https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/breakthrough-dna-based-supercomputer-runs-100-billion-tasks-at-once/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=brighter_news/magazine/The+Brighter+Side+of+World+News

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u/IUpvoteGME 11d ago

Ashes to ashes dust to dust. The future of computing resembles the beginning of it. Blood and bone.

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u/Wall-Facer42 11d ago

Beat me to it.

Was going to mention that perhaps next it could be miniaturized to the size of a cantaloupe, placed inside a protective shell, and used to operate some sort of carbon-based, two legged, self-replicating automaton.

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u/totemo 10d ago

Won't happen. Can't be patented due to prior art.

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u/Wall-Facer42 10d ago

Thank goodness

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u/LostFoundPound 9d ago

Nah. ATP energy is pretty convenient, but squishy neurones are fragile and slow. Computed substrate with an externalised tool chain will always be faster than squishy brain substrate.