Embodiment factor¶
Ratio of compute speed to communicate speed.
How locked in is our intelligence?
- Human compute: 1 petaflop ... $10^{15}$ flops to simulate a brain (same as fastest computer)
Human speaking speed about $150$ wpm (approx 100 bits per second)
Early telegraph 1000 wpm (approx 800 bps)
Desktop Computer today 10 gigaflops ... $10^{10}$ flops
- Computer communication speed millions of times faster than us (1 gigabit per second)
Links¶
Article from me on another aspect of the AlphaGo achievement
- Other articles in the Guardian are available from my Guardian Profile Page
My blog has articles relating to this area.