Human brain has equivalent of at least 30 TFLOPS of computing power [1]. To get same computing power with CPU at $6.3/TFLOPS in AWS it would cost $189/hr [2]. S

Human brain has equivalent of at least 30 TFLOPS of computing power [1]. To get same computing power with CPU at $6.3/TFLOPS in AWS it would cost $189/hr [2]. So renting a human as "general AI computer" is more than 27 times less expensive at the moment. Also, don't forget that humans also come with powerful high precision mobile actuators and unmatched sensor arrays. And that humans come pretrained in large array of complex skills including object recognition, text to speech etc. My question would actually be reverse of what is posed in the article: Why isn't Mechanical Turk far more lucrative business than AWS? So in conclusion, if you have $1M lying around, you more likely to find more profitable endeavor by renting humans than same amount of compute capacity in cloud. Price of GFLOPs is falling however at about 10X every 13±3 years. So possibly in 20-30 years things might be different. [1] https://aiimpacts.org/brain-performance-in-flops/ https://aiimpacts.org/brain-performance-in-flops/ [2] https://aiimpacts.org/recent-trend-in-the-cost-of-computing/ https://aiimpacts.org/recent-trend-in-the-cost-of-computing/