I think your calculations are off by orders of magnitude. Not all neurons fire constantly at 100 times per second—https://aiimpacts.org/rate-of-neuron-firing/ estimates 0.29 to 1.82 times per second. Most importantly perhaps, not all of the processing is directed to that decision. During those hours, many MANY other things are happening.
Thanks for the link to the aiimpacts page! I definitely got the firing rate wrong by about a factor of 50, but I appear to have made other mistakes in the other direction, because I ended up at a number that roughly agrees with aiimpacts- I guessed 10^17 operations per second, and they guess .9 − 33 x 10^16, with low confidence. https://aiimpacts.org/brain-performance-in-flops/
I think your calculations are off by orders of magnitude. Not all neurons fire constantly at 100 times per second—https://aiimpacts.org/rate-of-neuron-firing/ estimates 0.29 to 1.82 times per second. Most importantly perhaps, not all of the processing is directed to that decision. During those hours, many MANY other things are happening.
Thanks for the link to the aiimpacts page! I definitely got the firing rate wrong by about a factor of 50, but I appear to have made other mistakes in the other direction, because I ended up at a number that roughly agrees with aiimpacts- I guessed 10^17 operations per second, and they guess .9 − 33 x 10^16, with low confidence. https://aiimpacts.org/brain-performance-in-flops/