I remember looking into communication speed, but unfortunately I can’t find the sources I found last time! As I recall, when I checked the communication figures weren’t meaningfully different from processing speed figures.
Yeah, basically computers are closer in communication speed to a human brain than they are in processing speed. Which makes intuitive sense—they can transfer information at the speed of light, while brains are stuck sending chemical signals in many (all?) cases.
2nd edit: On your earlier point about training time vs. total engineering time...”Most honest” isn’t really the issue. It’s what you care about—training time illustrates that human-level performance can be quickly surpassed by an AI system’s capabilities once it’s built. Then the AI will keep improving, leaving us in the dust (although the applicability of current algorithms to more complex tasks is unclear). Total engineering time would show that these are massive projects which take time to develop...which is also true.
I remember looking into communication speed, but unfortunately I can’t find the sources I found last time! As I recall, when I checked the communication figures weren’t meaningfully different from processing speed figures.
Edit: found it! AI Impacts on TEPS (traversed edges per second): https://aiimpacts.org/brain-performance-in-teps/
Yeah, basically computers are closer in communication speed to a human brain than they are in processing speed. Which makes intuitive sense—they can transfer information at the speed of light, while brains are stuck sending chemical signals in many (all?) cases.
2nd edit: On your earlier point about training time vs. total engineering time...”Most honest” isn’t really the issue. It’s what you care about—training time illustrates that human-level performance can be quickly surpassed by an AI system’s capabilities once it’s built. Then the AI will keep improving, leaving us in the dust (although the applicability of current algorithms to more complex tasks is unclear). Total engineering time would show that these are massive projects which take time to develop...which is also true.