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> The human brain has about 20 PFLOPS of compute.

Where is this number coming from? The number of spikes per second?

Edit: doing a quick search, it doesn’t seem like there’s a consensus on the order of magnitude of this. Here’s a summary of various estimates: https://aiimpacts.org/brain-performance-in-flops/




No idea. I don't think there's any scientific consensus on even an upper limit of a human brain's FLOP equivalence.


> Where is this number coming from?

Used 20 PFLOPS of compute to simulate it.




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