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Energetics of the brain and AI

📅 2016
technical research breakthrough
🔵 Rare

📖 Description

Technical Report STR 2016-2 ? February 2016 ENERGETICS OF THE BRAIN AND AI Anders Sandberg Sapience Project 2016 Synopsis Does the energy requirements for the human brain gi ve energy constraints that give reason to doubt the feasibility of artificial intelligence? T his report will review some relevant estimates of brain bioenergetics and analyze some of the methods of estimating brain emulation energy re- quirements. Turning to AI, there are reasons to bel ieve the energy requirements for de novo AI to have little correlation with brain (emulation) en ergy requirements since cost could depend merely of the cost of processing higher-level repre sentations rather than billions of neural fir- ings. Unless one thinks the human way of thinking i s the most optimal or most easily imple- mentable way of achieving software intelligence, we should expect de novo AI to make use of different, potentially very compressed and fast, pr ocesses. ACM Computing...

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Variable Direction Condition
Research proposed: up Always
Papers proposed: up Always
Vibey Doom proposed: up Always

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