Chapter 6Artificial Intelligence (AI) vs. Natural Human Intelligence (NHI)
It’s ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know, less than a compact disc.
Marvin Minsky
Cofounder of MIT AI Laboratory
There are many outstanding books written on neuroscience and neurophysiology. One of my favorites is A Thousand Brains by Jeff Hawkins. It’s a great read about how our brains work and new theories of intelligence.
But if you want to skip these treatises, let me net out what you should know: The human brain is a pretty awesome organ. Weighing an average of 3 pounds, it has 100 billion neurons and 100,000 miles of capillaries.1 It’s what lifted homo-sapiens to the top of the food ...
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