How Much Computational Power Does It Take to Match the Human Brain?

A report estimating how much computational power it takes to match the human brain. The companion adopts its unit, the brain-equivalent of 10¹⁵ operations per second, which Carlsmith judges more likely than not to match a human brain's performance. That unit measures the scale of a world in computation in the long arc (C3) and Fig. 10a.

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the companion paper (Companion §11, Fig. 10)

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C3C3; brain-equivalent; Fig. 10a

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Compute, energy & the physics of information · Physics of computation & brain compute

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@techreport{carlsmith2020how,
  title = {How Much Computational Power Does It Take to Match the Human Brain?},
  author = {Joseph Carlsmith},
  year = {2020},
  howpublished = {Open Philanthropy (now Coefficient Giving)},
  url = {https://coefficientgiving.org/research/how-much-computational-power-does-it-take-to-match-the-human-brain/},
}