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Re:Tesla Autopilot by aidenn0 on Saturday June 17, 2017 @01:33AM (#14574447)
I'm curious where you get the number "38 petaflops" from.
Re:Tesla Autopilot by UnoriginalGuy on Saturday June 17, 2017 @02:12AM (#14574543)
IBM researchers: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/news-blog/computers-hav...

You can find other figures, but many are in the petaflop range, well above what could be realistically installed in a vehicle.

Re:Tesla Autopilot by aidenn0 on Saturday June 17, 2017 @06:08PM (#14577942)
How about 60 bits/s:

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/415041/new-measure-of-hum... I don't think we know enough about how the human brain works yet to give a precise value, but just on caloric arguments I would say that the mean processing power of the brain is not significantly above what we have now in general purpose computing devices.

Re:Tesla Autopilot by CamperBob2 on Saturday June 17, 2017 @01:59AM (#14574517)
In the same sense that your dog solves differential equations when he catches a Frisbee, I suppose.
Re:Tesla Autopilot by throwaway-1209 on Saturday June 17, 2017 @02:27AM (#14574580)
It's memory + control driven with visual feedback, not much more. You don't have to solve anything if you already sorta know the solution, and can adjust it for the goal.