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They are referring to the fact it uses a connectionist architecture rather than a von Neumann one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connectionism

That says most nothing. The brain uses various forms of neural networks of whose data processing we know relatively little. The IBM chip is at best somehow 'inspired' by the brain. It's far from working like it.

More specifically it's also a spiking neural network. You could probably program it to efficiently run very similar algorithms to human neurons.

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