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FL33TW00D a day ago

How certain are you of this really? I'd take this bet with you.

You're saying that we won't achieve AGI in ~80 years, or roughly 2100, equivalent to the time since the end WW2.

To quote Shane Legg from 2009:

"It looks like we’re heading towards 10^20 FLOPS before 2030, even if things slow down a bit from 2020 onwards. That’s just plain nuts. Let me try to explain just how nuts: 10^20 is about the number of neurons in all human brains combined. It is also about the estimated number of grains of sand on all the beaches in the world. That’s a truly insane number of calculations in 1 second."

Are humans really so incompetent that we can't replicate what nature produced through evolutionary optimization with more compute than in EVERY human brain?

yodsanklai a day ago | parent [-]

How does a neuron compare to a flop?