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But why are humans are very good at that? Could it be because humans have gotten tons of high-resolution, 3D imagery with binaural audio? Whereas this computer got a handful of low-res still images. Is the solution to just throw more horsepower at the problem, or is there really some inherent quality of the brain that's different?

edit: this quote puts things into perspective a bit "It is worth noting that our network is still tiny compared to the human visual cortex, which is 1,000,000 times larger in terms of the number of neurons and synapses."



Also, consider training time. I doubt babies are recognizing 20k objects at 15% success rate after just a few days. Though to really compare that, the speed of the brain vs the speed of the supercomputer has to be normalized for, and training data and network size has to be similar as well of course for any real comparison.




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