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I think a long ways away, if I understand this article about the difficulties involved in accurately modeling even a single biological neuron: https://www.quan
by photochemsyn 3y ago
I think a long ways away, if I understand this article about the difficulties involved in accurately modeling even a single biological neuron:
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-computationally-complex-is-a-single-neuron-20210902/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-computationally-complex-i...
> "If each biological neuron is like a five-layer artificial neural network, then perhaps an image classification network with 50 layers is equivalent to 10 real neurons in a biological network."
The complexity explodes quickly because each biological neuron's behavior is modulated by a large number of biochemical neurotransmitters, on top of all the dendritic connections (up to 15,000 each, apparently).