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Right at the start: "While our brain performs 1^8 power calculations per second," Um, no. Not 1^8 and not 10^8.
by philipswood 5y ago
Right at the start:
"While our brain performs 1^8 power calculations per second,"
Um, no.
Not 1^8 and not 10^8.
- giuliomagnifico 5y agoCan you explain a bit more? Thanks
- philipswood 5y agoThe sentence actually doesn't make sense mathematically: 1^8 - one to the power eight -is just one. Giving a bit of leeway for a typo gives us a bit of confusion with the notation - it should be "10 to the power of something". But 10^8 is still way too low. That just 100,000,000. I'm thinking 10^18 is still too low. Thinking the brain's capacity is 10^15 is understandable, but probably too low. Checkout this estimate giving "So my estimate would be 1.075×10^21 FLOPS" https://timdettmers.com/2015/07/27/brain-vs-deep-learning-singularity/ https://timdettmers.com/2015/07/27/brain-vs-deep-learning-si...
- Andys 5y agoPerhaps the author was only referring to their own brain