Educating the Atomic Human

Neil D. Lawrence

Digital and Data Day, Cambridge University Press and Assessment
bits/min
billions
2000
6
billion
calculations/s
~100
a billion
a billion
embodiment
20 minutes
5 billion years
15 trillion years

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bits/min \(100 \times 10^{-9}\) \(2,000\) \(600 \times 10^9\)

Epilogue

Bender, E.M., Gebru, T., McMillan-Major, A., Shmitchell, S., 2021. On the dangers of stochastic parrots: Can language models be too big?, in: Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, FAccT ’21. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, pp. 610–623. https://doi.org/10.1145/3442188.3445922
Scally, A., 2016. Mutation rates and the evolution of germline structure. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 371. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0137