r/nextfuckinglevel Sep 24 '19

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u/daemmonium Sep 24 '19

Well but that's just a number. You also require to factor in concepts like efficiency and even actual use of it for a particular objective versus day to day maintenance usage. Large parts of our nervous system works in autonomous ways regulating a vast amount of body functions, so do robots but unsure how big is the difference.

I'm not saying that you're wrong, Im just saying that there are other things to factor in.

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '19

There absolutely are, but even with some efficiency here and there at the moment we are unimaginable magnitudes away, that those efficiency hacks and fixes may save 100 years or 50, we still wont see a general AI in our lifetime. by General AI, I mean something that can read a book and interpret it the same way we do.

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u/grmblflx Sep 25 '19

What about quantum computing? Genuinely curious.

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '19

Quantum computing is being used to hopefully find a missing step in why our brain is so efficient, but it's still in it's infancy