Computer hardware is approaching the capacity of the human brain.
AI is improving at an exponential rate. Starting in the 70’s, nothing seemed to advance for years. Now it’s moving and will continue to accelerate.
The scary thing is that it will reach human capacity and blow right by us, continuing to improve.
Human capacity is fixed.
No one knows what will happen.
“Computer hardware is approaching the capacity of the human brain.”
The original estimate of the human brain was 10 trillion operations a second. We exceeded that years ago. The new estimate of the human brain is now 100 trillion operations a second, and that estimate is falling apart, too. We’ve exceeded that performance level, too. The Nvidia RTX 4080 does 64 teraflops. A simple dual 4080 system does 128 teraflops. Super computers built on such technology can exceed all brain performance estimates by thousands of times.
The problem isn’t speed or computational performance, it is the parallel relational means the human brain operates. Estimating that capability has been difficult. Computers have been able to outperform the human brain in sequential, or scalar, processing for decades, but the parallel processing capabilities of the human brain have not been matched. It is impossible to estimate the human brain since we do not know entirely how the human brain functions. Computers operate on limited electrical connections, the human brain doesn’t.
As an overall average, it may still be below human intelligence. However, one psychologist who spent time with it, said it had about 155IQ as far as being able to gather and compile information.