Each neuron has 10,000 connections too other neurons, and there are 100 billion neurons in the human brain. How close is AI to that level of connectivity?
Each neuron has 10,000 connections too other neurons, and there are 100 billion neurons in the human brain. How close is AI to that level of connectivity?

Each neuron has 10,000 connections too other neurons, and there are 100 billion neurons in the human brain. How close is AI to that level of connectivity?

As we venture deeper into the era of artificial intelligence, we're continually debating several aspects of its ability, emergence, potential, trajectory, and timeline. With so many companies/people doing so many things, it's hard to keep up with, or even understand what is actually going on.

I personally subscribe to the idea that hardware needs to evolve along with the coding architecture/algorithms that current AI is made of. But I don't know how to translate the terms and numbers used to describe the progress in the first place, which is true for most people.

The relatively few of you out there who do know what these numbers and definitions mean have conversations and arguments that go above most people's heads. So I'm making this post to ask, as well as create conversation around how the progress of AI, in terms of connectivity, compares to the human brain. I am really hoping we can do this in such a way for everyone to understand.

I'm also aware that mimicking the human brain isn't necessarily the goal with AI, and that the definition of AGI doesn't require it to be human-like, but rather human-level, generally.

Thanks for reading. I'm looking forward to the responses. :)

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