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Flash has limited write cycles, I wonder what the lifetime of these chips are supposed to be. I would think trying to compute with them would hit that limit very quickly.

Consumable chips I guess.

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My mind immediately went to the artificial 4-year lifespan of the Nexus-6 replicants in Blade Runner.

"The candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long... And you, you, Roy, have used oh so many write-cycles."

The weights are loaded once per model, so you would only have a write when you update the model, which happens once every few hours or days for most applications today.

An interesting notion that machines with these will experience a form of dementia as their memory cells fail to write and start reading as old or corrupt data.

Fortunately, we can always move such a mind to a brand-new brain, able to hold more data for longer. Or simply keep it synchronized all the time, so that respawning would be immediate.

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