Intel just built what amounts to an owl’s brain in a box the size of a microwave, and it can support up to 20 quadrillion operations per second. Before you start screaming about the robot apocalypse, let me drop some perspective on you like a piano falling from a tenth-story window.

The neuromorphic revolution isn’t coming—it’s already here, sitting in Sandia National Labs, consuming a maximum of 2,600 watts of power while contemplating its silicon navel. Hala Point, the industry’s first 1.15 billion neuron neuromorphic system, represents humanity’s latest attempt to build intelligence from scratch. Not by teaching machines to think like us, but by building machines that compute like brains—wet, messy, gloriously inefficient brains, except made of silicon and running at speeds that would

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