It is actually pretty interesting: the software that tries to do something highly parallelizable that brain does, always ends up requiring within the ballpark of how many operations per second neurons do in parallel. If we are to talk Avatar, more interesting is the fact that this much computing power is necessary to fool you, within the ballpark of the power of visual cortex, ‘naively’ computed. Likewise for other things. Even for things that are pretty narrow, where brain performs badly, like Chess, the computing power required is quite formidable. Much moreso for something like Go.
The belief that your abilities are doable without immense number crunching is the notion of overly optimistic AI researchers of the 1960s. It’s been obsoleted everywhere but here. Here you have this notion that brain hardware is somehow very ‘badly designed’ by evolution, never mind that it packs immense operations per second into small volume and small power consumption, with the only major failure being the use of organic materials rather than silicon. And you have the notion that the software is equally very bad. And total lack of awareness why world doesn’t think its true any more.
It is actually pretty interesting: the software that tries to do something highly parallelizable that brain does, always ends up requiring within the ballpark of how many operations per second neurons do in parallel. If we are to talk Avatar, more interesting is the fact that this much computing power is necessary to fool you, within the ballpark of the power of visual cortex, ‘naively’ computed. Likewise for other things. Even for things that are pretty narrow, where brain performs badly, like Chess, the computing power required is quite formidable. Much moreso for something like Go.
The belief that your abilities are doable without immense number crunching is the notion of overly optimistic AI researchers of the 1960s. It’s been obsoleted everywhere but here. Here you have this notion that brain hardware is somehow very ‘badly designed’ by evolution, never mind that it packs immense operations per second into small volume and small power consumption, with the only major failure being the use of organic materials rather than silicon. And you have the notion that the software is equally very bad. And total lack of awareness why world doesn’t think its true any more.