human brain

also referred to as: human brains

6 statements across 6 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Jul 16, 2017 by Frank Chen · across every show →

Everything said about human brain, oldest first

Jul 16, 2017
Insight
Chen: Humans fail at optimization beyond four dimensions while AI excels
“And after about three or four dimensions, your mind just kind of gives up. Your brain isn't programmed or optimized for that type of mathematical optimization, but machine learning algorithms love lots of data and are able to do this in a way that human brains…”
Frank Chen Jul 16, 2017 ▶ 36:13 The Promise of AI
Jan 2, 2019
Assertion Partly supported
Shanahan: Human brain uses identical neural apparatus for imagination and real action
“There's quite a bit of evidence that the way the brain does it, as you say, is, is to actually use the very same bits of neurological apparatus that it uses to do things for real. It's just kind of turning off the output.”
Murray Shanahan Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 8:54 a16z Podcast | Artificial Intelligence and the 'Space of Possible Minds'
Jan 2, 2019
Insight
Sinofsky: Humans naturally ascribe excessive authority to automated computing outputs
“There's something about a mechanical device That produces answers that makes the human brain ascribe way more authority to it than there necessarily should be.”
Steven Sinofsky Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 25:45 a16z Podcast | Revenge of the Algorithms (Over Data)... Go! No?
Sep 25, 2023 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kevin Scott: Human brain is orders of magnitude more efficient than AI
“We have proof points of, you know, a sort of a 20 watt organ that you know, sits between our ears that, that is artificial general intelligence that is many, many, many orders of magnitude more efficient than the Digital artificial neural networks that we're b…”
Kevin Scott Sep 25, 2023 ▶ 20:01 AI Copilots and the Future of Knowledge Work with Microsoft's Kevin Scott
Aug 4, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Patel: An Nvidia H100 has equal FLOPS capacity to a human brain
“H 100 has the same amount of flops as a human brain.”
Dwarkesh Patel Aug 4, 2025 ▶ 36:01 Dwarkesh Patel and Noah Smith on AGI and the Economy
Dec 8, 2025
Assertion Partly supported
Rao: Human brains run on 20W, mammalian brains on 0.1W
“Human brains run on 20 watts of energy. That's, that is true. But if you look at mammalian brains generally, actually extremely efficient, like a squirrel or a cat, it's like a 10th of a watt.”
Naveen Rao Dec 8, 2025 ▶ 10:09 The Chip That Could Unlock AGI.
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