Another interesting angle is power consumption. The brain consumes about 20W so that’s ~200pW/neuron. The GPU is 4 orders of magnitude worse at ~2uW/neuron.
The brain also does much more than a GPU. I’m not sure what percentage of the brain could be considered devoted to equivalent computation but is also interesting to think about. I’ve seen that the brains memory is equivalent to ~2PB.
The power of a 12TB hard drive is ~6W. So current tech has a long way to go if it’s ever going to get close to the brain, 2PB storage is about 1kW alone.
That’s pretty impressive for a bunch of goo that resulted from a random process.
Makes me think we are barking up the wrong tree with silicon based computing.
The brain also does much more than a GPU. I’m not sure what percentage of the brain could be considered devoted to equivalent computation but is also interesting to think about. I’ve seen that the brains memory is equivalent to ~2PB. The power of a 12TB hard drive is ~6W. So current tech has a long way to go if it’s ever going to get close to the brain, 2PB storage is about 1kW alone.
That’s pretty impressive for a bunch of goo that resulted from a random process.
Makes me think we are barking up the wrong tree with silicon based computing.