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Not OP, but the premise is just too naive. He's coming from a compsci deep learning angle and thus arrives at a completely flawed model for how neurons interact
by mrks_hy 4y ago
Not OP, but the premise is just too naive. He's coming from a compsci deep learning angle and thus arrives at a completely flawed model for how neurons interact and "compute".
Not that we have a model that even explains this theoretically yet, but it makes no real sense to talk of Brain FLOPs in the way he does.
It's borderline cringeworthy that this is upvoted so high.
- SemanticStrengh 4y agoThe dismissal is cringeworthy, the human cortex only consumes 0.17 watts https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.23.057927v1.full https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.23.057927v1.... Which put a very low upper limit to the number of simultaneous neurons that can be activated. Considering it as FLOPs or not is irrelevant to this fundamental limitation and that is the point you are all ridiculously missing