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It's bizarre though, because the latency problem is self-inflicted. If you were going to build a brain-computer interface, why on earth would you scatter parts
by mattkrause 7y ago
It's bizarre though, because the latency problem is self-inflicted.
If you were going to build a brain-computer interface, why on earth would you scatter parts of it across three different countries like this? It's not exploiting a vast data center or anything, just a VLSI chip that happens to be far away. If you did have to do that, why wouldn't you directly connect all three centers instead of having a Python script(?) in the middle handing off information.
The membrane time constant of a biological neuron is also about 30 ms, which gives you a fair amount of wiggle room even in the face of lag.
Their solution seems clever, but other than a vague mention of "IoT brain implants" (please god, no), I don't see what problem it really solves.
- inetknght 7y agoI think there's value in measuring effectiveness of intelligence algorithms with different latencies.
- mattkrause 7y agoSure, but it makes a lot more sense to me to do that by intentionally delaying the input/output. You'd get a lot better control without depending on the whims of internet traffic.
- saber6 7y ago> The membrane time constant of a biological neuron is also about 30 ms, which gives you a fair amount of wiggle room even in the face of lag. Interesting. I had no idea it was that long. I figured it was on the order of 10s of ns.
- mattkrause 7y agoYup! It depends a bit on the cell type (and how it's measured) but they're definitely on the order of 10s of milliseconds. Here are some values mined from the literature: https://www.neuroelectro.org/ephys_prop/4/ https://www.neuroelectro.org/ephys_prop/4/ Some very early work had estimated them as closer to 1 ms, but there were some technical problems with the measurement approach; I think that might account for some of the outliers there too. Bear in mind that they're little bits of fat and water, so they're not going to be particularly fast. It's sort of amazing that the brain works at all! [Also, no idea why your comment was dead, but vouched for it]