• Veganhydride [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    a singularity won’t magically happen because we can build a computer with as many transistors as a human brain has neurons

    This has already happened (the transistor part I mean)

    or a neural network that size

    We're 20% there

    • dualmindblade [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      We’re 20% there

      Not even close. The largest ANNs have ~200 billion connections and some millions of neurons. Human brain has ~100 trillion / 80 billion. Also a biological neurons are computationally more powerful and the connections between them more complex.

      So we're like .01% there or less, what's really remarkable is how far this actually gets us, it may be we don't need to come close to the complexity of the human brain to build something strictly more intelligent.

      • Veganhydride [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Do'nt get me wrong, it's an arbitrary calculation, but my numbers were 17 billion parameters (Microsoft DeepSpeed ) / 86 billion neurons