I was watching a video called "Why Tomorrow Won't Look Like Today: Things that Will Blow Your Mind", from 2014, about AI and arguing for one of my recent posts.
It's a bit over-hyped on some of it's claims, but some info was really interesting.
Like the human brain vs. computer to process complex images and make complex decisions.
The human brain has over 100 trillion synapses created from about 100 billion neurons, and it all runs on a mere 20 watts.
A test was done with the lowest powered supercomputer they could use. It had over 1.5 million processors, with 6.3 billion threads, and took 8 million watts, and ran 1500 times slower.
Supercomputers take hundreds of times more power, yet operate 1500 times slower! That's 400,000 times more power required than the human brain, and it doesn't cut it!
Using this base, to actually process 1 second in real-time as a world simulation for a supercomputer, would require 12 billion watts. That's an enormous 600,000,000 times more power required just to run 1 second like us. Ha!
The human brain is quite a treasure. :D
Given that, I think it's safe to assume there won't be an AI uprising anytime soon.
Check out the video for more tidbits. It's an hour long though. Here it starts at the timestamp about the brain power:
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2016-11-16, 4pm