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Last I saw, a custom built computer is many many orders of magnitude worse than the brain at playing Go per unit energy. And its not like we evolved to play Go.
by Certhas 10y ago
Last I saw, a custom built computer is many many orders of magnitude worse than the brain at playing Go per unit energy. And its not like we evolved to play Go.
- SilasX 10y agoFair enough, my claim was overbroad. I would still say it's true for most computation tasks: a vNA computer on typical hardware is still going to be more efficient as a general-use computer than something on a neural architecture. Humans do currently have an advantage on certain tasks that require detection of overall global patterns adn symmetries. (But even then, only a subset of those tasks for which someone hasn't been able to specify a good algorithm for finding that structure.) Even so, the core point remains: it's not that vNA is a bad architecture or that neural computers are more efficient in general, and the latter are probably much harder to reason about.