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Is it reasonable to expect that as this science progresses, it will progressively map out more complex connectomes? So the connectomes of nematodes and sea squ
by stevenjgarner 4y ago
Is it reasonable to expect that as this science progresses, it will progressively map out more complex connectomes? So the connectomes of nematodes and sea squirts have only a few hundred neurons each; and a fruit fly larva has 3,016 neurons with 548,000 synapses; and humans have 86 billion neurons with hundreds of trillions of synapses; is the expectation that brain maps will progressively be made of animals that have:
10k neurons - e.g. leech [1]
100k neurons - e.g. lobster [1]
1M neurons - e.g. cockroach [1]
10M neurons - e.g. zebrafish [1]
100M neurons - e.g. mole-rat [1]
1G neurons - e.g. buzzard [1]
10G neurons - e.g. giraffe [1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_by_number_of_neurons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_by_number_of_n...
- abecedarius 4y ago"Bees: a new unit of measurement for ML model size" https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YKfNZAmiLdepDngwi/gpt-175bee https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YKfNZAmiLdepDngwi/gpt-175bee (lists some other animals too)