The speed at which it operates will have nothing to do with the speed at which human brains operate. It can be much much slower and much much faster, depending on the hardware available. Today, it would be much much slower. Yes there are theoretical limits but also neural simulation looks like a problem well optimized for parallel processing, just like our brains do. The extent to which that is practical is really the governor here since parallel scalability would really mean that we can throw more hardware at it until the cost of communicating between nodes exceeds the benefit from having one more node.
The extent to which that is practical is really the governor here since parallel scalability would really mean that we can throw more hardware at it until the cost of communicating between nodes exceeds the benefit from having one more node.
I don’t think “nodes” is an entirely accurate statement here, however. But either way—the point I was making is that the hardware is itself going to be the biggest constraint in early-period devices. Furthermore, it’s not enough to simply integrate more nodes; those nodes need to have an actual role. Otherwise, bigger brains would result in smarter individuals. Yet elephants are not smarter than humans.
The speed at which it operates will have nothing to do with the speed at which human brains operate. It can be much much slower and much much faster, depending on the hardware available. Today, it would be much much slower. Yes there are theoretical limits but also neural simulation looks like a problem well optimized for parallel processing, just like our brains do. The extent to which that is practical is really the governor here since parallel scalability would really mean that we can throw more hardware at it until the cost of communicating between nodes exceeds the benefit from having one more node.
I don’t think “nodes” is an entirely accurate statement here, however. But either way—the point I was making is that the hardware is itself going to be the biggest constraint in early-period devices. Furthermore, it’s not enough to simply integrate more nodes; those nodes need to have an actual role. Otherwise, bigger brains would result in smarter individuals. Yet elephants are not smarter than humans.