> "My belief is that we’re not going to get human-level abilities until we have systems that have the same number of parameters in them as the brain."

While that may be true, I find this compelling:

"The fundamental unit of biological information processing is the molecule, rather than any higher level structure like a neuron or a synapse; molecular level information processing evolved very early in the history of life."

http://www.softmachines.org/wordpress/?p=1558#more-1558

Edit: formatting