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Re:Are we in an AI Overhang? by vikramkr on Monday July 27, 2020 @11:25AM (#23965978)
That 20 watts is to run the network. Our brain has had a billion years to work out details of the architecture and encode a lot of basic stuff as instinct (and it still sucks at a lot of things). You should be counting that energy cost as well - we didnt get from nerve nets to frontal lobes overnight.
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Re:Are we in an AI Overhang? by logicslave on Monday July 27, 2020 @02:45PM (#23968078)
This exactly, I am so tired of reading these posts online that ignore the billions of years the human brain took to evolve
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Re:Are we in an AI Overhang? by slowmovintarget on Monday July 27, 2020 @04:59PM (#23969315)
*millions, not billions.

Earth is about 4.5B years old, life is about 3.7B years old, multicellular life (including life with neural nets) is about 600 million years old. I don't think the span from microbe to multicellular organism counts in brain evolution.

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