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Nguyen: In 2016, Google Brain is at the intelligence of a cockroach

Christopher Nguyen · The Path to A.I. Augmented Human Intelligence // Christopher Nguyen, Arimo [FirstMark's Data Driven] · Jun 16, 2016 · at 14:59

Christopher Nguyen, co-founder and CEO of Arimo, evaluates the scale and biological equivalent of existing neural networks at Data Driven NYC in 2016.

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“If you look at the Google brain, it's at the level of a, about a cockroach. Ok? And it's got about a million neurons.”

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