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This is a great observation. It makes me curious as to what about the human brain allows it to do calculations so efficiently?
by faitswulff 11y ago
This is a great observation. It makes me curious as to what about the human brain allows it to do calculations so efficiently?
- chronial 11y agoThe human brain is in this situation much closer to an ASIC than a CPU. An average human can't play go on this level of skill – you need to use 20 years to turn your brain into the right kind of ASIC to play go. Also comparing the human brain and cpus in general, it should be noted that we are just good at different things. When it comes to basic arithmetic, human brains are much less energy-efficient than cpus.
- chongli 11y agoCalling a human brain an ASIC seems ridiculous to me. Lee Sedol, in addition to being a marvellous Go player, is also a typical human being. He can speak a language, read and write, probably drive a car, take care of his wife and child. AlphaGo is incapable of all those things. If you ask me, it's closer to an ASIC than a human is.
- Ciantic 11y agoIf chips were built for neural networks it would require significantly less power. One interesting thing I found by Googling FPGA (which is the easisest way to build a new chip) and neural networks, Microsoft is building one which requires considerabley less power: https://gigaom.com/2015/02/23/microsoft-is-building-fast-low-power-neural-networks-with-fpgas/ https://gigaom.com/2015/02/23/microsoft-is-building-fast-low...