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> The brainwaves associated with a wakeful state (and thus generating and parsing language) happen around 40 Hz. Our machines are running in the GHz region. I
by ot 5y ago
> The brainwaves associated with a wakeful state (and thus generating and parsing language) happen around 40 Hz. Our machines are running in the GHz region.
I don't disagree with the larger point, but each neuron is like a small independent analog computer, so you have tens of billions of (specialized) cores running at 40Hz, vs thousands of cores at ~GHz.