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by MichaelCollins 1425 days ago
The human brain does what it does with roughly 20 watts, if we take the popular figure of the brain taking 1/5th the power of your whole body and the average human body burning 100 watts.

How much neural net can you run on silicon with 20 watts?
1 comments
mynegation 1425 days ago
TBF it takes human brain anywhere from several months to decades to train for its skills. Plus several hundred million years spent on pre-training.
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MichaelCollins 1425 days ago
Sure it's not fair, but there's no handicap in this game. Silicon isn't given any leg up for being millions of years late. Raw results are what really matters, not results weighted by whatever criteria would render the comparison subjectively fair.
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